She began her career in the early 1970s in an episode of The Streets of San Francisco. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s she starred in numerous television shows and commercials, the horror film Nightmare in Blood (1978), and popular made-for-TV movies such as Vampire (1979), Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) in which she portrayed Joan Crawford, and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984).