Longley made her screen debut in a film called
The More Things Change as a pregnant
au pair. An early foray into television was in the epic miniseries
The Dirtwater Dynasty, opposite
Hugo Weaving, and
Edens Lost, a 4-part miniseries for ABC in 1989. In the ABC series,
Mercury, not-so-loosely based on the
Sunday Age, she played a senior journalist, alongside
Geoffrey Rush cast as editor, believed to be modelled on
Bruce Guthrie. Other television credits included:
Murder Call,
Wildside,
Water Rats,
Farscape,
The Alien Years,
Turtle Beach,
Young Lions, and
All Saints. ==Death==