Elmaloglou has appeared in numerous roles in various programmes and films such as Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Relatives, Mack the Knife and Limbo plus the 1988 telemovie Princess Kate. In 1989, she had a 2-week guest stint as asthmatic street-kid Simone in E Street and immediately followed this, from 1990 until 1993, with a regular role in Home and Away as Sophie Simpson. Since this show, Elmaloglou has appeared in the Australian film The Sum of Us (1994) and guest starred in A Country Practice as Christine Agapitos. In 1994 she appeared on the stage at the Sydney Opera House in Caravan.

In 1993, she went to the UK for a production of Aladdin. Elmaloglou appeared in Pacific Drive in 1996, as a victim of incest, who dices with death when she turns to drugs. She appeared in an episode of Life Support as a “publicity whore”. The actress later posed naked in a Gothic-themed set of photographs for the Australian celebrity nude art magazine Black+White. In a 1995 interview, she stated that she did not receive the offers she had anticipated after leaving Home and Away and that finding work was a struggle.

Elmaloglou has 1 child with her husband, Kane Baker. Their son, Kai was born in 2008. She married Baker in 2009.

On 7 February 2013, it was announced that Elmaloglou had joined the cast of Neighbours as Terese Willis.