Before and after
Playboy, Shower had an acting career, mainly within the action-adventure (
American Kickboxer 2,
The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck) and erotic thriller genres (
Boundaries,
LA Goddess, and
Velvet Dreams). Shower also made numerous appearances on mainstream television, guest-starring in episodes of
Knight Rider, ''
Three's Company, CHiPs, Simon & Simon, and a 46-episode continuing role in the daytime drama series Santa Barbara. She appeared in To the Limit, starring alongside Anna Nicole Smith. In 2009, Shower completed an independent film entitled Kathy Shower: Playmate Model Mom''. Shower worked as a model for the
Tapout clothing company. At age 43, she was again featured in
Playboy in a "Playmates Revisited" pictorial in August 1996. == Selected filmography ==