 The day after graduation, she moved to Chicago and modeled for the next couple of months before moving to New York City.Heskin' first role came in early 1998, when director John Woo selected her as the lead in his pilot "Blackjack" starring Dolph Lundgren and Kate Vernon.Later that year, she replaced Vanessa Dorman as Caitlin Richards Deschanel on the NBC daytime soap opera "Sunset Beach".