Her work as Espinete kept her pre-occupied, but when Barrio Sésamo was cancelled in 1987, Vivares went back behind the microphone, dubbing Penelope Sudrow in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3.

She also reprised Espinete in a theatre version of Barrio Sésamo during the late 1980s, touring through Spain alongside other actors from the series such as Sánchez and José Riesgo.

On-camera, Vivares played a dressmaker in the final episode of the Spanish series Farmacia de guardia (1995).She made multiple guest appearances on the TV crime drama El Comisario, notably as the distraught mother of a kidnapped child.

She also voiced the principal character of "la señorita Ofelia" in multiple computer games adapting the Spanish comic-book Mortadelo y Filemón.

Vivares continues to work primarily as a voice actress, however, dubbing the characters of Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter movies, Chloe on Smallville, and parts on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed.