Modeling During her time in Paris, she posed for
Sportswear International,
Vogue Paris, and others. Upon her return to the United States, Severance became one of America's top models, filming over 40 commercials, and earning $7,500 per day. Severance was also on the covers of the January 1990 and November 1992 issues of
Playboy magazine, both featuring her in a
nude pictorial. More recently, at age 52, she appeared in a six-page editorial along with an interview in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of
Genlux magazine.
Acting In 1986, Severance began auditioning for acting bits at the urging of her friend
Robin Leach. Her most extensive role was a villainess for an eleven-episode story arc of the TV series
Wiseguy; she played Susan Profitt, half of a brother/sister crime team (the other half was played by
Kevin Spacey) to great acclaim. Their partnership was reprised in
See No Evil, Hear No Evil. In the early 1990s, Severance appeared as Samantha "Sam" Dooley, the Martian Belle, in two training videos for
Virtual World Entertainment alongside other actors such as
Cheech Marin,
"Weird Al" Yankovic,
R. Lee Ermey, and
Judge Reinhold. From 1998 to 1999, Severance played Security Chief Camille Hunter on the Aaron Spelling television series
Love Boat: The Next Wave on
UPN. In 2006, Severance appeared in
My Network TV telenovela Wicked Wicked Games. She was also in shows such as
CSI: Miami and
One Tree Hill. In 2013, she was in
American Horror Story: Asylum. In 2014, she was on
Celebrity Wife Swap with Robin Leach. ==Personal life==