Her parents are Robin Ramsay and Barbara Bossert Ramsay (actress and writer). As a child she worked as an actor, with roles in an ABC Television series, The Truckies, and the film Dimboola. At age 17, she was cast in the Australian television series Possession (1985).[1] She played Princess Talitha in Return to Eden (1986), followed by roles in Prime Time (1986), Neighbours (1987), Darlings of the Gods (1989), The Great Gatsby (Rippon Lea, directed by Robert Chuter), Blue Heelers (2001),[2]Queen of the Damned (2002), and Tao of the Traveller (2008), a film based on a theatre script and book written by Barbara Bossert Ramsay, and produced and directed by her father, Robin Ramsay.