She is best known for starring as Megan Conley for 11 years in The Bold and the Beautiful, as Paula Carin South of Nowhere, and Constance Tate-Duncan in the rebooted 90210.

After an injury, she quit tennis and pursued an acting career, starting with parts in commercials for Nike and Gatorade.

[1] Prior to South of Nowhere, she was a regular on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, where from 1995 to 2005 she played Megan Conley.

One of her more notable roles was that of Rhonda in the 2002 movie Ken Park, a controversial film in which she received oral sex from the boyfriend of her character's daughter.

She co-created, co-produced, and starred in 3 Way, a web series about roommates, which featured lesbian characters, with Jill Bennett, Maile Flanagan, and Cathy Shim.