Early in her career, Fontane worked as an assistant to a disc jockey in Los Angeles.
[2] Her first role was portraying her father as a young boy in the 1963 production The Tony Fontane Story.
The movie told about her father's rise to popularity as a teen idol and his subsequent tragedies and successes.
She starred in the 1983 TV movie The Night the Bridge Fell Down, and had a small role in the 1989 action film The Punisher.
[2] Fontane was married to musician Roy Yeager,[4] a drummer who worked with several successful recording artists, including the popular 1970s group Lobo and country superstar Ronnie Milsap.