It didn't last long and she got a first engagement at the Schauspielhaus in Graz in 1869, it followed smaller roles on other stages. Finally she found a patron with the actress Josefine Gallmeyer who recommended her to important theater directors.
In 1871 she made her stage debut at the Viennese Hoftheater where she soon got positive critics and a benevolent audience.
Olga Lewinsky became established at several important theaters and she appeared among others at the Deutsches Theater in Prague, at the Hoftheater Kassel, at the Alten Theater in Leipzig and finally again at the Hoftheater in Vienna.
Her parents did not support her wish to become an actress because they wanted that she will take over a "serious" profession, the young Olga Lewinky run away from her family at the age of 16 and followed her dream herself.
After the turn of the century she retired from the theater step by step and took over new roles only sporadically. Therefore she had the time to play roles in few silent movies of the 20s.