Has played three characters who suffered or engaged in some of the most controversial depictions of sexual assault ever put on film. Most famously there was the controversial double rape scene in
Straw Dogs (1971), where her character Amy was raped first by a former love and then by one of his coworkers, while in
Mandingo (1975) she is the one who rapes a black slave, and in
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) her character engages in an adulterous affair while possessed by a ghost.