After having participated in several television series and co-hosted the show "Kawai" on Filles TV alongside Louise Bourgoin, Wheeler won a role in the Saphia Azzeddine's adaption of Azzeddizine's novel "Mon père est femme de ménage". Her performance as the big sister who dreams of becoming a musical star earned her a nomination for the 2012 Césars as "most promising actress". She continued on to earn a small role in the biopic "My Way", by Florent Emilio Siri, also released in 2012.