Her other TV shows included Hang Time, High Tide, Step by Step and Boy Meets World, plus a small role in the TV movie The Barefoot Executive. She had an uncredited role in Black Sheep and appearances in Diagnosis: Murder, Sliders and The Single Guy. She reprised her role as Darla in 2000 for the Buffy spin-off series Angel appearing in every season for at least one episode. She was the only non-African American actor featured in the principal cast of the romantic comedy The Brothers. Benz also provided the voice of Miranda Keyes for the video game Halo 2, though she did not return to the role in the sequel Halo 3 as Bungie wanted to try a new direction with the Miranda Keyes voice by giving the character an accent, replaced by Justis Bolding. She played the lead role of Danielle in Bad Girls From Valley High (a film shot in 2000 under the title A Fate Totally Worse Than Death) which was released on DVD in 2005. She had a small role in the critically acclaimed TV movie Lackawanna Blues.

She has a recurring role in the CBS show A Gifted Man. At age 15, Benz was told by an acting coach that she would never succeed as an actress. Her first movie role was a small speaking part in “The Black Cat” segment of the Dario Argento/George A. Romero horror movie Two Evil Eyes (1990). A year later, she was cast in the TV show Hi Honey, I’m Home (1991), which was canceled after two seasons. After graduating from high school, Benz entered New York University to study acting. Two weeks after her move, she obtained a bit part in a 1994 episode of Married. She made two movies, the dark comedy Jawbreaker and Dirt Merchant, before landing a lead role in another TV show called Payne. She reprised her role as Darla in 2000 for the Buffy spin-off series Angel appearing in every season for at least one episode.

After graduation from NYU, she moved to Los Angeles. She had an uncredited role in Black Sheep and appearances in Diagnosis: Murder, Sliders and The Single Guy. She starred in the short spoof film Eating Las Vegas and the unaired TV pilot Veronica’s Video, had a small uncredited role in the TV movie A Walton Easter and a small role in Inventing the Abbotts. She reprised her role as Darla in 2000 for the Buffy spin-off series Angel appearing in every season for at least one episode.