She began her career as an undergraduate co-founding the award winning Trouble and Strife Women’s Theatre Company, writing, performing and touring original work. She has gone on to appear in the Obie winning production of Mike Leigh’s Ecstasy and Goose Pimples at the New Group, The Skryker at The Public, Freedom of the City and Gibraltar at the Irish Rep and The Village Bike at MCC. Film work includes, A Good Baby, American Psycho, Dancer in the Dark, Gangs of New York, Adaptation, Birth, Hotel Rwanda, The Notorious Bettie Page,The Savages, An Education, I Origins and A Woman, A Part. She recently played Sister Harriet in Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick.