Press' first credited screen role was in a 2001 episode of the BBC television series Holby City. Her film debut and first lead role was in the short filmWasp (2003), which went on to win the Academy Award for best short film in 2005. She was recognised by the London Film Critics Circle and the Evening Standard British Film Awards for her work in My Summer of Love (2004) and nominated for a European Film Award in the category of Best European actress the same year. She made her professional stage debut in The Weather, a new play by Clare Pollard, performed as part of the Royal Court Theatre's 2004 Young Playwrights Season. In 2005, Press appeared as Caddy Turveydrop (née Jellyby) in the acclaimed BBC serialisation of Dickens'Bleak House. Also in 2005 she appeared in the BBC television drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle.
In 2006, Press starred in Josh Appignanesi's feature film Song of Songs, which won a commendation in the Michael Powell Award for best British film 2005 at the Edinburgh festival. Later that year she also starred in the same director's short film Ex Memoria - produced by Oscar-winning producer Mia Bays - a film about a woman with Alzheimer's disease. Press starred as the young version of the character Eva. The short was nominated in the category of Best UK short at the British Independent Film Awards.
In 2006 Press appeared in Red Road (also by Andrea Arnold, the director of Wasp) (the first film in the proposed Advance Partytrilogy) which won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and in the two-part drama series Damage which was broadcast on Irish television. In the same year she won the Glamour magazine award for best newcomer in association with Nokia.
^Pawlikowski, Pawel (5 November 2004), My Summer of Love (Drama, Romance), Natalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews, Apocalypso Pictures, The Film Consortium, BBC Films, retrieved 4 June 2021
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