[citation needed] Franoszek began working as a dancer, and also posed as a life model for German neo-expressionist painters Rainer Fetting, G.L.
Whe earned a master's degree in Performing Arts (BFA & MFA) from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (HMTMH) in 1986,[2] and began to work in regional and national theatre.
[4] She also performed in The Pianist by Roman Polanski, had a leading role in the feature film Martha, and guest starred as Greta in the TV series Mad Men.
[citation needed] Franoszek starred opposite Jiří Menzel in Joint Venture,[5] and also performed in The Party-Nature Morte and in Murderous Decisions [de].
Kevin Spacey cast her as Patty Duke in Beyond the Sea[6] and she plays the leading role in Visioner directed by Elodie Keene.
[citation needed] She plays the director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial in 12 Means I Love You (German title: 12 Heisst Ich Liebe Dich), a sequel to The Lives of Others, which premiered at the Hof International Film Festival 2007.
][citation needed] In 1999, Franoszek made her debut as a theater director at the Pacific Resident Theatre, Los Angeles, with two Strindberg plays starring, among others, Orson Bean, Alley Mills, and Paula Malcomson.