 In 2018, she won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer for her stand-up comedy show "All Talk".In 2019, Pacquola appeared as J. G. (Jenny) Milford in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Oriel Gray's "The Torrents".Pacquola's first movie role was in the 2018 New Zealand romantic comedy "The Breaker Upperers" alongside Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek, both of whom wrote and directed the film.