In 1997, she decided to become an actress and began studying at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum, a program that she completed in 2001.
In 2004, she made her cinema debut in Mark Schlichter's film Cowgirl, alongside Alexandra Maria Lara, which earned her a nomination for the Undine Award.
She began her screen career in the German TV movie Schluss mit lustig!
She starred in the TV miniseries Neu in unserer Familie in 2017 as the matriarch who has children by two different men, and they all live in the same household.
[3] In 2017 she achieved international recognition as a member of the main cast of the Netflix sci-fi family drama television series Dark, in which she plays the role of Hannah Kahnwald.