Launching her screen career on daytime drama, Edwards played Hayley Benson on the soap Santa Barbara from 1986 to 1988 before moving into episodic television and low-budget genre pictures. A notable early credit was the comedy-drama series Sons and Daughters (1991), and she accumulated guest spots on shows such as 21 Jump Street, Quantum Leap, L.A. Law, and Murder, She Wrote. Her breakthrough arri…