[3] In August 1960, she competed against fifty-one other national winners in the very first Miss International 1960 contest,[4] held at the Veteran's Memorial Coliseum in Long Beach, California.

Her first television role was as Miss Iceland in the 1960 private-eye series Michael Shayne, starring Richard Denning, in the episode Death Selects the Winner, broadcast December 23, 1960.

She had an uncredited role as "Party Girl" in the 1964 film Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando and David Niven.

In 1982, she had a major role credited to her Icelandic name in the film Okkar á milli: Í hita og þunga dagsins (Inter Nos), a change-of-pace film created by Iceland's famous Viking-film director Hrafn Gunnlaugsson about a man's mid-life crisis.

In 1960, she competed in the Miss International competition, and traveled the world as part of the entourage representing the pageant.