 She made cameo appearances in films including "Sleeping Dogs" (1977), "Solo" (1977), and "Braindead" (1992).She played a former opera diva in the 1977 Australian TV movie "The Night Nurse", and appeared as herself in Peter Jackson's 1995 mockumentary, "Forgotten Silver".Beginning in 1978, Whitehouse served a four-year term on the board of the New Zealand Film Commission.