Adopting the stage name of Tushka Bergen, the blonde beauty was cast as a teenager troubled by her father's impending remarriage in "The Place at the Coast" (1987). She was a turn-of-the-century heroine torn between two lovers in the period film "Outback/Minnamurra" (1989) and rose to prominence as Robert Sean Leonard's dance partner in "Swing Kids" (1993). Whit Stillman tapped her for the pivotal role of the "too attractive" Spanish girl Montserrat, who romances Taylor Nichols' Ted Boynton while maintaining her relationship with her anti-American boyfriend in "Barcelona" (1994). Trying her hand at US TV, Bergen played a young woman who discovers that her mother and her mother's lover are plotting to implicate her in a murder in the based-on-fact "Murderous Intent" (CBS, 1995). She returned to features to play an American songstress who falls for a schizophrenic in "Voices" (1995) and then appeared as a kidnap victim in "Turning April" before undertaking a cameo appearance in "Lovelife" (both 1997).