She had previously appeared with her TNG co-star Colm Meaney in the 1990 drama Come See the Paradise on which she also worked with Becky Ann Baker, George P. Wilbur, Allan Graf, Ben Slack, and David Carpenter. Her latest film credit was the 1994 action sequel 3 Ninjas Kick Back, with Angelo Tiffe, Don Stark, DonnaMarie Recco, and Robert Miano. After earning her MFA at USC she moved to Tokyo and began attending animation classes at the Yoyogi Anime Gakuin. She then worked as animator at Vega Entertainment. She was a director and animator in 2007 for the anime series Doraemon. [1](X)