 Allen portrayed a lesbian prison inmate in the 1975 television movie "Cage Without a Key", which starred Susan Dey.Her most notable roles are Grace, the entrepreneurial café owner in the Old West, that she played for seven years on "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", as well as the flamboyant and outspoken Doreen Jackson on the NBC soap opera "Generations", and Lucinda Cavender, the vampire witch in the horror comedy film "The Midnight Hour".Before "Generations", she played ambitious salesgirl-turned-boutique-manager Stacey Russell on the short-lived prime-time soap "Berrenger's".