In 2014, Cayouette was made their Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient [2] and her name was added to the university's clock tower.
Before pursuing a career in acting, Cayouette worked as a nightclub DJ, model, English professor, dress shop manager [3] and a ticket taker at Universal City Walk Hollywood.
[4] Best known as Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, the sister of the main villain in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, Cayouette's acting career started in 1996 with a role in The Evening Star (1996), the sequel to Terms of Endearment, opposite Shirley MacLaine and Juliette Lewis.
She is also the author of a coming of age novel, Lemonade Farm, and the amateur-sleuth Charlotte Reade Mysteries series set in New Orleans[3][5] and highlighting cultural events like Jazz Fest, Southern Decadence, and the Mardi Gras Indians’ Super Sunday, as well as moments like the Saints Super Bowl victory during Carnival, the BP oil spill, and Hurricane Isaac.
[7] More recent acting roles include the recurring Marlene in Ava Duverney's Queen Sugar and John Schneider's wife in the film Hate Crime (2017).