Studying at Yale, she graduated cum laude in Theatre Studies and Fine Art. She attended RADA and graduated in 2003. Since then, she has appeared in various British dramas, including prominent television roles as Chantho in the Doctor Who episode "Utopia" and as a fortune teller in the episode "Turn Left" as well as appearances in Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre productions and the films Proof and Sunshine. During 2008 she appeared in the radio serial The Way We Live Right Now, and in the Hampstead Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht's Turandot.

She is also a director of an Abingdon-based charity, "Sponsored Arts for Education" (S.A.F.E.), which concentrates on AIDS-awareness education programs in neglected areas of Kenya which traditional means of information dissemination cannot reach.

She is also a director of an Abingdon-based charity, "Sponsored Arts for Education" (S.A.F.E.), which concentrates on AIDS-awareness education programs in neglected areas of Kenya which traditional means of information dissemination cannot reach.