[1] Layng is best known for her role as nurse Mary Margaret "Curly" Spaulding in the ABC comedy-drama series Doogie Howser, M.D.
[3] In 1991, Layng guest starred in the television series Pro and Cons and appeared in the feature film The Marrying Man.
ended in 1993, Layng would guest star in the television series Joe's Life and Diagnosis: Murder.
[4] In 2012, Layng co-starred in the independent film White Frog, which was produced by her husband, David Henry Hwang.
[2] In 1996, Layng, along with her husband had bought a chair at the modernism show in Seventh Regiment Armory.