At age 18, she made her debut on the screen with a minor role in the film Élève libre directed by Joachim Lafosse. Her breakthrough came with Le Bel Âge in which she played opposite Michel Piccoli, and for which she won an Actress prize at the Festival international des jeunes réalisateurs de Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Her work in Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront, directed by Léa Fehner, won her the Prix Lumière best Actress newcomer award, then the Étoile d'or de la presse de la révélation féminine in 2010. In 2013 she appeared in a new screen version of Denis Diderot's The Nun.
