[1] Prentiss had many supporting roles in films and television series in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, including Get Smart's "The Little Black Book", Hogan's Heroes' "The Missing Klink" (1969), and on the Baretta episode "Half a Million Dollar Baby".

In the 1967 NBC-TV series Captain Nice, created by Buck Henry, Prentiss played Police Sgt.

Candy Kane, the girlfriend of the title character, a shy chemist/superhero portrayed by William Daniels.

[2] Prentiss was convicted in a California court of a 1996 assault against her father, and a subsequent threat against members of her family.

The district attorney claimed that Prentiss, while incarcerated on the assault charge, had attempted to hire another inmate to kill three people, including her father and actor-director Richard Benjamin, her brother-in-law.