Her most famous TV role is probably that of Pop in Verspeelde lente (1984) and on the silver screen opposite Marius Weyers and Peter Sepuma as the rich Afrikaner woman in Taxi to Soweto.

On stage, she became best known as Olive Schreiner in Stephen Gray's Schreiner - A One Woman Play (directed by Lucille Gillwald), as Elsa in the debut production of Athol Fugard's Road to Mecca in the Market Theater in Johannesburg, and as Stella in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (translated by Lucas Malan and directed by Bobby Heany).

Cawood married actor Wilson Dunster in 1982, with whom she appeared in Paul Slabolepszy's The Art Of Charf and Dinner For One.

[3] Her brother Bromley is a film and television director, and her daughter, Jenna Dunster, is also an actress.

[4] Elize Cawood Dunster died on 18 July 2020 at the age of 68 in Cape Town[5].[where?