Tucson, Arizona-born Dusenberry played Amory (alias Angel Collins) in Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977), and Amy March in Little Women in a two-part miniseries on NBC in 1978, and returned to the role in a full series the next year. In 1978, she appeared as beauty queen Tina Wilcox in Jaws 2. She played Margot in the short-lived 1986 series Life with Lucy.