In 1985, she appeared in
Back to the Future as Sally Baines, the younger sister of
Marty McFly's mother
Lorraine Baines. She then played Margaret Ann Culver in the short-lived 1985 television series
Lime Street, starring
Robert Wagner and
Samantha Smith. After her role in
Adventures in Babysitting, she played one of the children in the 1990 TV movie with
Robert Mitchum which was the basis for the series
A Family for Joe, and co-starred in the 1990 TV movie
Sky Trackers with
Pamela Sue Martin. This was followed by her run on ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose''. Her other television credits during the late 1980s include appearances on
21 Jump Street,
Highway to Heaven,
Trapper John, M.D. and
The Wonder Years. She has also acted in various theatre productions, most notably at the City Garage Theatre in
Santa Monica, California. ==Personal life==