[2] In 2009, she won the Leopard for best actress at the Locarno International Film Festival for her role of Anne in Nothing Personal, a Dutch movie directed by Urszula Antoniak.

For her main role as Judith Leschan she received a Golden Nymph award for best actress alongside Andrea Osvart and Elise Schaap at Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2011.

[7] From 2011–2013, she played Giulia Farnese in the Showtime period drama The Borgias, alongside Jeremy Irons in the role of Pope Alexander VI.

[8] In 2012, Verbeek played a double role of two twins Therese and Angelique in the erotic thriller Suspension of Disbelief, written and directed by Mike Figgis and screened at Rome Film Festival.

[10] In 2014, she began playing Geillis Duncan in the Starz television drama Outlander and she was cast as Helena in the movie The Last Witch Hunter alongside Vin Diesel.