Zoe Pepper trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and since graduating she has continued her studies at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris and at TVI studios in Los Angeles, where she studied acting for screen. Pepper has worked in London where she played the lead in many short independent films and theatre productions and has worked commercially, performing in a Franz Ferdinand film clip and T Mobile and Ford commercials. In 2006 Zoe was a member of the Black Swan Theatre Company Hot Bed ensemble.