Shortly after school she got a role in a TV play by Franz Ernst and Astrid Saalbach.
In La Bonne by Salvatore Samperi,[3] Trine Michelsen is a maid who arouses the inhabitants of a house erotically.
The same year she played opposite Donald Pleasence in the splatter film Spettri directed by Marcello Avallone [de; it].
Her only American film came in 1988 in a small role in The Girl in a Swing, Gordon Hessler's adaptation of Richard Adams' novel by the same name.
Lack of success made her focus on her modelling career, but she returned to acting in 1994 playing a prostitute in Vibeke Gad [da]'s unemployment drama Eva.