She was best known for two high-profile roles in daytime television, Nola Reardon on Guiding Light and Iva Snyder on As the World Turns.

[2] Brown also created another notable soap role in the form of Iva Snyder on As the World Turns, playing her from November 6, 1985, to 1994 and with several guest appearances from 1998 to 2003.

[2] Other daytime work includes a short stint as a corrupt FBI agent on Loving in 1995.

They had two children together, Victoria and James "Buddy" Anthony Nielsen, who as a child played her infant son on Guiding Light and is now the lead singer of Senses Fail.

[8][9] In a post on his Instagram shortly after her death, Buddy Nielsen indicated that she had a "quick battle with cancer.