[3] She is best known for her roles as Colleen Brandon-Ortega on CBS' sitcom Life in Pieces (2015–2019) and Staff Sergeant Jillian Perez on Fox's comedy television series Enlisted (2014).

[6] She has appeared in various commercials, such as Citibank, The Home Depot, Captain Morgan, New York Lotto, Blue Cross and Toyota.

[7] Her print campaigns include Verizon, Western Union, Olympus, Redbook, Fed Ex, Loestrin.

She had guest roles on several television shows, including Devious Maids, Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist, Happy Endings, Mad Love, Melrose Place, Bad Judge, State of Affairs, Grey's Anatomy and Criminal Minds.

In 2016, Cabral was cast as Becca Winograd Diaz in Amazon's animated original series Undone.