Salme Reek became a member of the Estonian Actors' Union in 1934 and a member of the Estonian Theater Union in 1949 [REF].
In 1981, Reek appeared in the role of the character Tuiska's wife in the Arvo Kruusement directed period drama Karge meri; a film adaptation of the 1938 novel of the same name by August Gailit about the lives of seal hunters in a small village on the Baltic Sea.