Anna Maria Sturm was born in 1982 in Schwandorf, in Bavaria. After finishing school, she attended Munich's Otto Falckenberg drama school from 2004 to 2006. During this time, Sturm already made her stage debut at Munich's Kammerspiele and appeared in several productions between 2004 and 2006. In 2007, Sturm made her movie debut in Marcus H. Rosenmüller's "coming of age" film "Beste Zeit" ("Best Times").

The following year, she reprised her role for the sequel "Beste Gegend" (2008). She next starred in a row of TV productions, including the award-winning "Tatort" entry "Nie wieder frei sein" and the drama "Gestern waren wir Fremde" (2011), and played the daughter of an evil mine owner in the theatrical release "Sommer der Gaukler" (2011), which was again directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller.

From 2011 until 2013, Sturm played a young police detective in the Munich edition of the "Tatort" series, and her last appearance in the role garnered her a nomination at the Bavarian Television Award. Reteaming with director Rosenmüller and co-star Rosalie Thomass, she again played the role of Kati in "Beste Chance", the third and final film in the trilogy. After that, she appeared in the lead tole of Holger Haase's love comedy film "Heiraten ist nichts für Feiglinge" (2015, TV) and the sister of a murder victim in "Hattinger und der Nebel - Ein Chiemseekrimi" (2016, TV). On the big screen, she played a lead role of an anti-nuclear activist in "Wackersdorf" (2018), a film about the protest movement against the building of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the town of Wackersdorf in Bavaria.