Her acting career began in the theatre with Compagnie Timothee Laine and with the Theater Labor Warschau.

[1] She had her first experiences with film as an assistant of Jacques Rozier.

Her debut as a film actress was in Wings of Desire (1987), by Wim Wenders, with whom she was in a relationship.

She learned circus acrobatics for the role in only eight weeks,[2] and performed without using a stunt double.

Wim Wenders said about Until the End of the World: "Solveig Dommartin and I had written the story of our film together, and we thought that we only had the right to enter into such a sacred area like a person's dreams, if we would bring something into the work that was sacred to ourselves".