Her first role in a full-length movie was in the 1988 movie Lifted, and her breakthrough role came in 1989 in the horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child as Greta Gibson. Anderson appeared in three TV episodes of "Twin Peaks", playing twin sisters, Emerald and Jade in Invitation to Love. She starred in the 1991 erotic suspense thriller Zandalee with Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, and Joe Pantoliano.
In 1991, she starred in a suspense thriller Shadows of the Past, as Jackie Delaney with Nicholas Campbell. In 1995, she starred with Scott Valentine in Object of Obsession as Margaret, a woman taken hostage by her mysterious new lover. Her last movie was in 2000 in the film Ascension.
Anderson has made many guest appearances on TV shows from Silk Stalkings, Dream On, Twin Peaks, to Red Shoe Diaries (Liar's Tale). The 5-foot 11-inch brunette modeled for various fashion magazines, as well as for Photographers Helmut Newton, Douglas Sutter, and Sculptor Robert Graham. She has appeared on the cover of at-least five magazines. In 2010 Anderson appeared in Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. Anderson was also featured in articles in such magazines as the May 1991 Premiere Magazine, (pages 38–42) by Phoebe Hoban, the January 1991 Elle, as well as ITC Entertainment's press kit for the 1991 movie Zandalee.
