[4] During her prolific stage career, she appeared in productions in works by such varied international playwrights and authors as: William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Schiller, Adolphe Adam, Maxim Gorky, Pierre Beaumarchais, Aleksis Kivi, Franz Grillparzer, Anton Chekhov, Konstantin Trenyov, and George Bernard Shaw.

[1] In 1947, Meta Luts was cast in the role of Mrs. Emilie Värihein in the Herbert Rappaport-directed Lenfilm drama Elu tsitadellis.

The film was based on the 1946 play of the same name by Estonian author and communist politician August Jakobson and was the first post-World War II Estonian feature film following the annexation of Estonia into the Soviet Union.

The film ends with jubilant Estonians celebrating their "liberation" and inclusion into the Soviet Union; accepting the communist ideology.

[6][7] Other prominent film roles include that of Paula in the 1956 Viktor Nevežin-directed historical drama Tagahoovis, based on the 1933 story of the same name by author and playwright Oskar Luts (no relation), for Tallinna Kinostuudio (now, Tallinnfilm); and the role of Heli's grandmother in the 1957 Aleksandr Mandrõkin-directed drama Pöördel.