In 1982, she was cast in the role that would bring her wider recognition, as Laura Templeton on “General Hospital”. She remained with the show for a year, and then went back and forth between film and television roles throughout the 80s, appearing on “Happy Days”, “The A-Team”, “Another World”, and “Quantum Leap”, and in the films, “Knights of the City”, “Monkey Shines”, and “Steel Magnolias”. In 1990, she was cast as Maggie O’Connell on the hit series, “Northern Exposure”. Since the end of “Northern Exposure”, she has focused primarily on television films.