Holmes is best known for her role as Leslie Vanderkellen, a wealthy, world-class skier who takes the job of hotel maid, on the first season of
Newhart. She left the show after the first season and was replaced by
Julia Duffy, who portrayed Leslie's cousin Stephanie Vanderkellen for the remainder of the show's run. Holmes also appeared in the 1979 slasher film
The Demon, starring
Cameron Mitchell, and acted opposite Mitchell again in the 1982 film
Raw Force. She also appeared in the TV movie versions of ''Hobson's Choice
(1983) and Samson and Delilah (1984). In 1985, she starred in Misfits of Science'', a short-lived television series about a group of superheroes who fight crime for a scientific think tank. In the 1980s, Holmes was also a guest on many television shows, including
Knight Rider,
The Fall Guy,
The Rockford Files,
Lou Grant,
Fame,
Webster,
The Love Boat,
Murder, She Wrote,
Hart to Hart,
Voyagers!, as Mandy Jo on
The Dukes of Hazzard and
Tales of the Unexpected. == Filmography ==