[1] She began acting in school and joined the youth group at Hebden Bridge Little Theatre (HBLT).
[3] In 2014,[4] Swales-Dawson joined the cast of the long-running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the murderous teen villain Nico Blake, whom she would play until the character's supposed death in 2016.
[5] For her performance, she won Best Bad Girl at the Inside Soap Awards that year.
In a surprise, she returned to the soap in 2018 to reprise her role as Nico, but the character was killed off the same year.
Swales-Dawson made her professional stage debut when she played Jade Harcourt on the 2019 UK tour of The House on Cold Hill with Joe McFadden and Rita Simons.