 She appeared in show to 2002 on recurring basis.In 2008 she had another soap role, on CBS's "Guiding Light".Birkelund appeared in films "Letters from a Killer" (1998), "The Bone Collector" (1999), "Uninvited" (1999), "Far from Heaven" (2002), and on made for television movies "Night Sins" and "On the Edge of Innocence" (1997).