Green is best known for her roles as a young teen in a string of
teen movies in the 1980s. Her big break came in the 1985 film
The Goonies playing cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea "Andy" Carmichael. Two months later, she appeared in
Summer Rental where she portrayed Jennifer Chester. She gained further critical acclaim for her performance in
Lucas (1986) starring as the center of a
love triangle between the characters of
Corey Haim and
Charlie Sheen. However, her next film
Three for the Road (1987), which featured Sheen and
Alan Ruck, did not fare as well. She appeared in a 1990 episode of
In the Heat of the Night, performed in an independent film called
Blue Flame, and played the role of secretary to
Paul Reiser's character in two episodes of the television sitcom
Mad About You. Green eventually co-founded a film production company, Independent Women Artists with Bonnie Dickenson. With Dickenson, she co-wrote and directed the film adaptation of a play about
teen pregnancy called
Bellyfruit (1999). ==Personal life==