Anni Finsterer graduated with a Bachelor of Performing Arts from University of Western Sydney in 1987.

In 2009, she earned a Graduate Diploma of Education in Drama and English from the University of New England.

Anni was awarded an AFI Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Movie for Ann Upfield in Three Acts of Murder.

Other film credits include Johnny Ghost, To Have and To Hold, The Boys are Back, Prime Mover, The Clinic and Strange Fits of Passion.

Anni has appeared in numerous television series including City Homicide, All Saints, Home and Away and Love My Way.

In theatre, Anni has worked for both major and independent companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Australian People's Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir, Queensland Theatre Company, Griffin and Bell Shakespeare. She played major roles in Macbeth, (Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,) Hamlet, The Women of Troy, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra. In independent theatre she toured Europe and Asia with American Drama Group Europe.

Anni also works as a Corporate Dramatist and Educator of Speech, Drama and subject English.

Anni lives in Sydney and is married with two children.