Bathe has had guest starring roles in a number of television shows, including
ER,
Half & Half,
Girlfriends,
Brothers & Sisters, and
How I Met Your Mother. She was regular cast member during the second season of the ABC legal drama series
Boston Legal playing attorney
Sara Holt. From 2009 to 2010, she had a recurring role on the short-lived NBC medical drama
Trauma, and in 2011 had starring role in the TV Land sitcom
Retired at 35. She had main roles in the independent films
All About Us and
April Moon. In 2012, Bathe co-starred opposite
Katherine Heigl in the crime comedy film
One for the Money. Later that year, she had a recurring role opposite her real life husband Sterling K. Brown in the Lifetime drama series
Army Wives. In 2014, she was a female lead opposite
Kevin Hart in the ABC comedy pilot
Keep It Together. In 2016, Bathe was cast in a recurring role in the NBC drama series,
This Is Us, also starring Brown. In 2018, Bathe was cast as one of leads in the
BET+ comedy-drama series
First Wives Club based on the
film of the same name written by
Robert Harling. She left the series after two seasons in 2022. In 2020, she signed a first look deal with ViacomCBS. Bathe appeared in the 2020 romantic comedy film ''
Sylvie's Love and the following year guest-starred on HBO series, A Black Lady Sketch Show. In 2022, Bathe was cast as a lead alongside Morena Baccarin in the NBC heist thriller series The Endgame. In 2023, she played the leading role in the thriller film Boy in the Walls
directed by Constance Zimmer, and was cast alongside Terry Crews in the CBS comedy pilot JumpStart''. ==Personal life==