 Her big screen acting debut was with the film "El Cometa" by Marisa Sistach, playing the character Valentina, for which she was nominated for the Ariel award for Best New Actress.Her biggest role was alongside Gael García Bernal in "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" (2002) in the role of Amelia, a girl who is impregnated by a Catholic priest and then dies after a backstreet abortion.In 2006, she appeared in Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation" as Coco, a Mexican immigrant forced to work in a meatpacking plant.