[12] In December 1984, she appeared with Hal Jackson on Soul Train after having won the Miss Talented Teen International pageant earlier in the year.

Thomas appeared in music videos for Mint Condition,[13] Chubb Rock,[14] and Dru Hill.

After the sitcom ended in 1998, Thomas portrayed Callie Rogers, an aspiring singer and love interest of Malcolm Winters, on the daytime soap The Young and the Restless.

[19] In August 1997, Thomas was diagnosed with a rare cancer, an intra-abdominal desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor (DSRCT).

"[18] Thomas underwent surgery to remove a lemon-sized tumor in early 1998, and subsequently was cast on The Young and the Restless.

[1][12] On December 23, 1998 at the age of 30, Thomas died as a result of a desmoplastic tumor, in New York City at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.