[5] Due to financial limitations, Ingram declined an offer to attend Howard University and enrolled at Baltimore City Community College in 2012.

[7] In her final year at Yale, Ingram received rave reviews for her lead performance as Viola in an Afrocentric version of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

[9] Ingram next appeared in Peter Hedges' ensemble drama The Same Storm[10] and as Lady Macduff in Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth,[11] which premiered at the New York Film Festival in September 2021.

In 2022, she appeared in Michael Bay's Ambulance,[12] Noting her Emmy nomination and these roles, Variety named her one of ten actors to watch for 2021.

[13] Ingram appeared in the Disney+ Star Wars spin-off miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi as Reva Sevander / the Third Sister, an Inquisitor who works to hunt down surviving Jedi after Order 66.

For her role as Reva Sevander in that series, Ingram received hundreds of direct messages on Instagram containing death threats and racist abuse which she revealed examples of on May 31, 2022.

She will next appear in two Apple TV+ miniseries: Lady in the Lake opposite Natalie Portman, and The Big Cigar, starring André Holland.