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While working in Denver on a fashion shoot, one of the photographers mistakenly thought Wilson was the model. He introduced her to a New York modeling agent, who signed her on the spot. She moved to Manhattan and within eighteen months, had appeared in over thirty commercial campaigns for Clairol, Sea Breeze, Keri-Lotion and Maybelline. Her print work ran in such popular magazines as Mademoiselle, Glamour and Redbook.

After three years of modeling, Wilson moved to Los Angeles. She won the starring role, opposite Louise Lasser, Brian James and Reed Burney, in Crimewave, a 1984 black comedy directed by Sam Raimi. Three days after that film wrapped, she was cast in Velvet, an ABC/Aaron Spelling MOW/series pilot, in which she played Ellen Stockwell, a undercover agent for the government and an accomplished helicopter pilot opposite Shari Belafonte, Leah Ayers and Mary-Margaret Humes. Within the next year, she had a lead with Tim Robbins in Fraternity Vacation, a summer comedy in which she played an intellectual beauty who was the object of Spring Break-ing frat animals` desire.

In 1985, Wilson starred in the CBS television miniseries Kane & Abel, with Peter Strauss. This immediately led to Our Family Honor, a CBS drama about Irish cops versus the Mafia, in which she starred with Ray Liotta, Michael Madsen and Eli Wallach. Her career continued to grow including News at Eleven and Power Play.