As a musician, she provided vocals and drums to Warpaint from to She abruptly left the group after recording their first EP. Sossamon's sole recording with the band is the EP Exquisite Corpse. In , Sossamon began directing and producing shorts and music videos through her small production company, the Maudegone Theater. Her parents divorced when she was five, and Sossamon and her sister were then raised by her mother, who married Randy Goldman, a salesman and manager of an auto dealership.
The day after her high school graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles with two friends, to study dance. It felt like being so free โ just to wake up and make coffee and look at our couch.
After moving to Los Angeles in , she began to work as a DJ , booking gigs in local clubs and performance venues. It wasn't clear what I wanted, but I was fine with that. I had never needed a plan. I'm really good at feeling safe in the unknown aspects of planning your life".
In , Sossamon guest-starred as several characters in three episodes of Mr. Show with Bob and David , and two years later, she was discovered by casting director Francine Maisler, while assisting a fellow DJ at Gwyneth Paltrow 's brother's birthday party.
The film premiered on May 11, , [ 10 ] and received average reviews, [ 11 ] with her part getting an equally mixed response; Robin Clifford for Reeling Reviews concluded that Sossamon was "pretty but little more than an object of affection" [ 12 ] and Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDwire called her role "the movie's weakest link", noting that although Sossamon was a "wonderfully wicked flirt", her character "isn't terribly well established and she's the most jarringly modern sight in this ancient tale".
