After studying Fine Art at university, she worked as an office temp and as a video store clerk on Fulham Road until the success of My Summer of Love.

She made her professional stage debut in The Weather, a new play by Clare Pollard, performed as part of the Royal Court Theatre's 2004 Young Playwrights Season.

She also starred in Inseparable opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, and in In Transit, a World War II drama set in Russia which also features John Malkovich.

In 2007 she was, alongside Cecilia Dean and Helena Christensen, one of the new faces of the Japanese clothing label Uniqlo and featured in the music video for Turin Brakes' single "Stalker".

Press worked on period love story Where I Belong (2014) in the leading role of Rosemarie, starring opposite Johannes Krisch.