Prior to her work on Star Trek, Haney was the makeup department head on the short drama Voice in Exile (1984) and an episode of New Love, American Style (1986). She served as makeup artist on the television series Mr. Belvedere (1989) and The Carol Burnett Show (1991). Between 1992 and 1993 she was the makeup department head for the television series Camp Wilder on which she worked with fellow Enterprise makeup artist Mel Stetson. In 1994 she joined the production of Diagnosis Murder, a crime/comedy series on which she worked til the end in 2001 and along with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine makeup artist Joan Philips.