She later moved into acting, debuting as the star of the 1976 erotic musical comedy film Alice in Wonderland at the age of 21.

She was on the April 1976 cover of Playboy, photographed by Suze Randall.

She also appeared in Playboy's classic August 1976 Helmut Newton pictorial "200 Motels, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation",[1] from which 11 original prints were sold at auctions of the Playboy archives by Butterfields in 2002 for $21,075,[2][3] and three by Christie's in December 2003 for $26,290.

Her most prominent film roles included playing A.L., a camp counselor, alongside Bill Murray, in the comedy Meatballs (1979) and Jackie Chan's girlfriend in The Big Brawl (1980).

She returned to acting in 2012, appearing in a number of direct-to-video productions.