Anders appeared in a number of low-budget films, including starring roles in Life Begins at 17[1] and Reform School Girl, along with Sally Kellerman.

[2] Her best-known performances may have been as Vincent Price's sister in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)[3] and as a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 (1963).

Her other film credits include When the Legends Die (1972), The Killing Kind (1973), Shampoo (1975), Personal Best (1982), Movers & Shakers (1985), You Can't Hurry Love (1988), Doppelganger (1993), Wild Bill (1995), and American Strays (1996).

[7] As a writer, she wrote the original screenplay of Fire on the Amazon (using the pseudonym Margo Blue) for executive producer Roger Corman.

Anders was a lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of Soka Gakkai International (SGI).