 She can speak fluent Spanish.New's career was launched by American talent manager Stacey Castro, who discovered her in Barcelona, Spain in 2009, during a search for UK casting director Susie Figgis to find the role of "Lucrezia Borgia" for the television series "The Borgias".In 2010, she was offered a role in television show "The Time in Between", the adaptation of the same-titled María Dueñas novel.