She started her career with a small role in the Broadway play A Cry of Players (1968–1969), written by William Gibson.
[2][3] In the late 1970s, she left Hollywood, supposedly to move with a boyfriend to Texas, where she worked on a shrimp boat for three years.
Phillip Dixon shot her for Oui, a Playboy corporation affiliate and put her on the cover in November 1980 and again in May 1981 with a shoot by five photographers).
[8] In late summer 1984, Graves left the CBS show due to a serious drug problem and a heroin overdose, but her departure was reported as stress-related.
Her last public appearance was a nude photo shoot by Jean Rougeron published in the October 1984 issue of Oui.