 Rice first traveled to California in 1996 to attend a modeling convention and landed her first entertainment job working behind the scenes at the "Judge Judy" show.Her first feature film was the independent "The Doe Boy" (2001), which garnered several international film festival awards.She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Janet Pete in the films "Skinwalkers" (2002), "Dreamkeeper" (2003), "Coyote Waits" (2003), and "A Thief of Time" (2004), based on the Tony Hillerman novels by the same names.