There, at the suggestion of a friend, actress Carrie Snodgress, she auditioned at Universal Pictures, performing a scene from the film The Country Girl for the head of talent, Monique James.

She appeared in the 1980 TV-movie The Gambler with Kenny Rogers and also played Ricky Stratton's mother, Evelyn on Silver Spoons and Jackie on Empire.

[7][4] She appeared in guest roles on many popular television shows of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, including Ironside; Banacek; Mannix; Barnaby Jones; Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law; The Six Million Dollar Man; CHiPs; The Greatest American Hero; Wonder Woman; Magnum, P.I.

; Hart to Hart; The Incredible Hulk; Family Ties; The Golden Girls; Blossom; Beverly Hills, 90210; Battlestar Galactica (as one of the prison-barge inmates recruited to destroy "The Gun On Ice Planet Zero"); The Paper Chase: The Television Series; My Two Dads; Night Court (the 1992 episode "Opportunity Knock Knocks", where she was credited as Christina Belford); Harry O; Murder, She Wrote; Diagnosis: Murder and Quincy, episode "Holding Pattern".

One television role was the December 21, 1980 CHiPs episode "Wheels of Justice", where she played the character Denise Holmes; an attractive, suffering, and sympathetic figure wife of an arrogant and habitual drunk driver.

In 1983, she co-hosted, in Los Angeles, with Steve Edwards, Cathy Kronkite, and Ruth Batchelor, an unsuccessful pilot for a daytime-magazine series, Personal & Confidential, over five days (August 1–5, 1983).