Her most famous work was on the television sketch comedy television series Second City Television. Her best known recurring role on it was Edith Prickley, an obnoxious television producer at the television station in Melonville.

Other famous roles include a supporting role in the popular film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Moogy, Quark's iconoclastic mother on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and as the current waitress on the Downy Paper Towel TV commercials.