She is also known for her recurring roles on the television shows ER as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel.

She had toured the United States and Europe with her mother, singer Phyllis Bash, who was in the opera Porgy and Bess.

Gimpel has starred in numerous primetime and streaming shows including NCIS: New Orleans, Chicago Med, Grey's Anatomy, Shut Eye, True Blood, Criminal Minds, Nikita, Rizzoli & Isles, House, ER, Profiler, and Veronica Mars.

Theater credits include originating the role of Mayme in Lynn Nottage's award-winning Intimate Apparel.,[4] Glory Bee in States of Shock,[5] and Nelly in Each Day Dies With Sleep.

[6] Gimpel received the Stage Raw Award for Best Solo Performance for her work in the one-woman play Sister by Michael Phillip Edwards.