 Her debut came in 2003 in "Stopping Distance", a film about gang rape in which she appeared as a teenage girl called Melanie.In 2004, she made her second stage appearance, this time as teenager Julie Osman—the daughter of a Turkish Muslim man who was the victim of a racially motivated murder in South Wales—in "A Way of Life".In 2006, she completed a hat-trick of appearances in controversial films by portraying the role of a girl called Serena in "Little White Lies".