Then in 1987 Kennell moved to Los Angeles to further her career and had early parts in television commercials and comedy skits on the Tonight Show.

[2] From the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s, Kennell appeared in a variety of roles in television series, TV movies, and feature films.

Some of these appearances include the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) and Men at Work (1990) and television shows Baywatch, In Living Color, Silk Stalkings, Nash Bridges, The X-Files.

The series was titled Designer To The Stars: Kari Whitman and featured her redesigning rooms within celebrity homes.

Representing PETA, and wearing plastic lettuce-leaf bikinis, Kennell and fellow Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson (Miss July 2002) sold vegetable hot dogs to members of Congress outside the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C.[4] The courtyard inside the building was the location for the 2004 Hot Dog Lunch, which was sponsored by the American Meat Institute and the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.