She left Farscape in February 2001. Her reason for leaving was that she had shaved her hair and eyebrows for 3 years for her role as "Zhaan", and wished to grow her hair back and regain her health due to the extensive prosthetic make up upsetting her kidneys.
Appeared in the US in a well-known "Oil Of Olay" television commercial for 10 years in the 1980s, in which she played a schoolteacher who is mistaken by one of her former students as one of his own former classmates. She has appeared in 57 TV commercials in Australia and the UK.