She gave her debut in 1990 in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Kindergarten Cop. For that role she won the Young Artist Award in 1991. After that she played the role of Elizabeth 'Betsy' Gibson Ewing in the television series Knots Landing. In 1997 she reprised her role as teenager in the miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac.