Pare had a small role in Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, a Mafia-TV movie, during her senior year in high school who convinced her to pursue acting as a career. She also found small roles in an episode of the horror / teen TV series Big Wolf on Campus and in the French film "Vacances in 1999.
Pare next starred in Lost and Delirious, the opposite Piper Perabo in a story about two young lovers who are in a girls' boarding school. The film was the English-language debut of director Lea Pool, and debuted to positive reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. Pair appeared in the mini-series Random Passage in 2002, based on a number of award-winning novels by Bernice Morgan, and set in Newfoundland in 1800.
Parenting in Los Angeles, California, where she has lived since around 2004. She is married to writer and producer Joe Smith.Parenting has made her family a priority and has said she has refused to risk losing the close relationships of a career in movies.
