Already since 2001 she had professional performances in the play HNK Split, Rijeka, National Theatre, and Žar ptica.
Her first lead role gets in 2004 in the movie A Wonderful Night in Split, directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić.
New real acting takes a running start in one of the biggest Croatian commercial success, the film What Is a Man Without a Moustache?, directed by Hrvoje Hribar.
Marija played a young girl Ana from Sarajevo who is going to make a friendship with Serbian woman Ruža.
In 2010 Journal Globus proclaimed her as one of the leaders of Croatian film (together with Daria Lorenci, Zrinka Cvitešić, Leona Paraminski, Nataša Janjić and Jadranka Đokić).