[3][5] She attended high school at SMA Plus Pembangunan Jaya; while a student there, she visited Turkey, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic on a cultural mission, performing traditional Indonesian dance.
[3] Growing up, she says that modeling and acting weren't on her mind, she would say she wanted to be a veterinarian; in high school, she found that meant studying science and put the idea aside.
[7] After graduation, she worked as a social media manager at an art gallery, living in Bali and commuting to Jakarta for modeling jobs.
[3] Following an unsuccessful audition in 2017 for Galih & Ratna, her career in acting began the same year with the role of Suki in the film My Generation, for which she was nominated Best New Actress in the annual Indonesian Maya Awards.
[3][6] Her first three film roles had Lutesha worried about being typecast: "The characters were always depressed children, disobedient to their parents, emo, or cold and snappy.
"[a][3] In 2022, Lutesha co-starred as Alpha, a member of the titular team of assassins in the Netflix feature, The Big 4,[10] and as Raya Fitri, one of a group of high school students investigating the death of a classmate, in the mini-series, Virgin the Series, on Disney+.