She entered acting with a role in a Texas production of the musical The Rocky Horror Show. After moving to New York City and studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute, she made her feature debut in the 1991 film Brain Twisters (1991). Other films include Academy Award winner Barry Levinson's Disclosure (1994), Michael Mann's Heat (1995), Ground Control (1998), and Kate's Addiction (1998), in which she and Actress Kari Wuhrer play women in a lesbian love affair, and the TV-movies Journey to the Center of the Earth (NBC, 1993); Complex of Fear (CBS, 1993); Bionic Ever After? (CBS, 1994), and Abandoned and Deceived (ABC, 1995).