 She had a role in the 1997 movie "Eve's Bayou", as Mattie Mereaux.On television, she played the recurring character Carla Reece, the on/off girlfriend of Eriq La Salle's Dr Peter Benton in NBC's "ER" between 1996 and 2001.Between 1997 and 2002 she played prosecutor Renee Raddick in Fox's "Ally McBeal", a role for which she received multiple award nominations.