Funke's career has mostly been on the stage. She was featured in the off-Broadway hit “Punk Rock” and she has starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the Roundabout Theater's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. Her additional theater credits include the Broadway production of Hairspray and the San Francisco production of Wicked. Her first professional acting job was at age 16, as Jan in Grease at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City. Funke broke onto the entertainment scene in the critically acclaimed film A Most Violent Year in 2014. On July 17, 2015, it was announced that Funke had been cast in the CBS crime drama series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders as SSA and Medical Examiner Mae Jarvis.