She showed a mixture of innocence and strength in her roles. In 1973 she appeared in three films, Elle court, elle court la banlieue, Les granges brulées and Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob. Her big break came with Blier’s Going Places, released in 1974. During the 1970s, she had roles in such films as F comme Fairbanks (1976), Alain Tanner’s Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), and Losey’s Roads to the South (1978). In Memoirs of a French Whore (1979), directed by Daniel Duval, she portrayed a young prostitute and received a César Award for the role. Many of these 1970s films were released internationally to art-house venues. In 1976 she appeared in one of the last spaghetti westerns, Damiano Damiani’s A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot.

Through the 1980s she was in such films as La gueule du loup (1981), Guy de Maupassant (1982), Diane Kurys’s Entre nous (1983) with Isabelle Huppert, Blanche et Marie (1984), Evening Dress (1986), and Deville’s The Reader (1988). She played opposite Lee Marvin (in one of his last roles) in Boisset’s Dog Day in 1984.

The 1990s saw her in Louis Malle’s May Fools (1990), Deray’s thriller Netchaïev is back, the comedy Un indien dans la ville (1994), and The Eighth Day (1996) and Dry Cleaning in 1997. She appeared opposite Gérard Depardieu in a new production of Émile Zola’s Germinal (1993). 2001 saw her in Agathe et le grand magasin and in 2004 she appeared in L’après-midi de monsieur Andesmas, among other films.