Professional screen debut in the British television series for kids, “Simon and the Witch”

Made film debut in the low-budget German thriller, “Anansi” (shown at 2002 AFI/Los Angeles International film festival)

Breakthrough role as Selena in Danny Boyle's “28 Days Later”

Cast as the daughter of a West Indian family in the television adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestselling novel “White Teeth”

Cast in “Trauma,” opposite Colin Firth

Played a Bahamian cop trailing a jewel thief (Pierce Brosnan) in the lighthearted, “After the Sunset”

Appeared opposite actor Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's comedy “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story”

Played a Jamaican witch doctor in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest”

Appeared in the big-screen version of the 1980s TV series “Miami Vice,” directed by Michael Mann and co-starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx

Reprised role of Tia Dalma, a Jamaican witch doctor in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

Co-starred in the drama feature, "August"