 For Velina Hasu Houston's "Tea", she won a Theater Guild Award for Best Lead Actress.Additionally, on television, she starred alongside Cloris Leachman and Pat Morita, once again, in a TV drama, "Blind Alleys" written by David Henry Hwang and Frederic Kimball.She then went to Kyoto to film the TV movie "American Geisha" (CBS) which was based on the autobiographical book by Liza Dalby.Other TV roles include recurring on "MAD-TV", starring in "Nightingale", "ER", "Step By Step", "Hannah Montana" and "Dexter".