Along with Mink Stole and Pat Moran, she is one of only three actors to appear in all of his films to date.
[2] Her most famous roles were in Waters' Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living.
However, as the years progressed, Pearce appeared less and less in Waters' films, usually as an extra or a character without a major impact on the plot.
In an interview with Gerald Peary, Pearce explained that she left for Provincetown to live with Waters and his then-girlfriend, Mona Montgomery: I was 18, and it was three months after I got married.
My husband was a jockey at Saratoga, and he told my father I'd left him and run off with beatniks.