She began her screen career in the German TV movie Schluss mit lustig! She appeared in a number of television series in her country, appearing in the late 2000s in film productions such as Buddenbrooks, , and Zarte Parasiten. She appeared in the Tatort series between 2005 and 2015, playing Felix Klare's wife. She starred in the TV miniseries Neu in unserer Familie in 2017 as the matriarch who has children by two different men, and they all live in the same household. In 2017 she achieved international recognition as a member of the main cast of the Netflix sci-fi family drama television series Dark, in which she plays the role of Hannah Kahnwald.
