[5] She moved to New York as a young woman to pursue a career as a dancer.

[6] Carmen appeared on Broadway in two productions by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. She was a principal performer in the 1915 Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic as a "balloon girl", sharing the bill with The Dolly Sisters, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Olive Thomas; and she returned as a principal player in the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920, on a bill with Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, and Lillian Lorraine.

[10] She acted in two silent films, A Romance of the Underworld (1918)[11] and Experience (1921),[12] both of which are now lost.

Sybil Carmen married writer and film executive Maurice Sydney Revnes on September 8, 1919;[13] in 1926 they moved to France where he represented Pathé Studios.

[14][15] On April 14, 1929 at 7:30 P.M., Sybil Carmen died of pneumonia at 8 Rue Quentin-Bauchart in Paris.