[1] On her return to Canada, Paxton-Beesley attended the University of Toronto and was involved in a production of Buried Child with the Victoria College Dramatic Society.

[5] Paxton-Beesley was nominated and won an Outstanding Actress (Small) MyTheatre Award for her performance in Slip, for Circlesnake Productions, a complex psychological drama in which she played a detective, at the Harbourfront Centre: World Stage, Toronto.

[8] Paxton-Beesley first appeared on screen in 2004 in The Good Shepherd (also known as The Confessor (film), alongside Christian Slater and Molly Parker.

[9] In 2018, she played the role of "Red", a brain-damaged shooting victim, in six episodes of the TV series Cardinal,[13] and in the same year starring as Anna Funk in Pure.

[15] Paxton-Beesley offers advice to budding acting students that they be mentally, physically and emotionally prepared for the reality of rejection in auditions.