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Actress Martina Schöne-Radunski firstly earned recognition through her participation in the 2006 web-TV production "Ninas Welt", a soap opera produced in the form of three-minute-long episodes, especially for mobile television. She played her debut movie part in a supporting role for Tom Lass' "Papa Gold" (2009-2011). Afterwards, Tom Lass' brother Jakob Lass cast her for his film "Frontalwatte" in the supporting part as the ex-girlfriend of the main character. Again with Tom Lass as director (and co-protagonist), she played her first lead role in the relationship drama "Kaptn Oskar" (2012), about a young man whose ex-girlfriend repeatedly tries to sqeeze back into his life. For this part, Schöne-Radunski was awarded the Seymor Cassel Award at the Oldenburg Film Festival. Furthermore she earned a nomination for the Deutscher Schauspielerpreis as Best Up-And-Coming Actress.
In the film-compilation "German Angst"(2014) she played a cunning neo-nazi chick in the episode directed by Michal Kosakowski (title: "Make a Wish"). Again with Tom Lass, she got cast as supporting character in the outsider-lovestory "Blind & Hässlich" (2016). She played the leading part in the award-winning tragicomedy "Luca tanzt leise" (2016) about a young woman, who wants to finally graduate from school after a ten year long depression. The film premiered at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis and appeared on German cinema screens in January 2017. Even before that, Schöne-Radunski starred in a small role of the TV-trilogy "Ku'damm '56" (2016).
At the end of 2016, she worked with Jakob Lass again: In his novel-adaptation "So was von da" (opening 2018) she played the eccentric and cheerful friend of a crisis-ridden Hamburg club-owner.
Also in 2018, Martina Schöne-Radunski starred in the title role of the offbeat relationship comedy "Kim hat einen Penis" ("Everything Always All The Time"). She went on to play key supporting roles as a maid in the psychological mystery thriller "Schlaf" ("Sleep," 2020) and as a left-wing activist in "Bis wir tot sind oder frei" ("Caged Birds," CH/DE 2020), which tells the story of legendary Swiss bank robber and notorious prison escape artist Walter Stürm. Her television work during this period included appearances in the ensemble cast of the crime miniseries "Lauchhammer – Tod in der Lausitz" (2022) and the tragicomedy "Sterben für Beginner" (2024).
Schöne-Radunski also expanded her work behind the camera. In 2019, she co-wrote and co-directed (with Lana Cooper), produced, and appeared in the social drama "Flieg steil" ("Ascend"), about a far-right musician who forms an unlikely friendship with a militant punk. The film premiered at the 2024 Oldenburg International Film Festival, where it received the German Independence Award for "Originality, Courage, and Boldness." Despite its festival success, "Flieg steil" was not released theatrically in Germany until August 2026.