In 1980, she made her Broadway enter in The Lady From Dubuque. D... isconcerted roles followed in high point films the sports drama Amazing Grace and Chuck and the blood drama Climb Gibraltar (as one of Burt Lancaster's daughters). She mainly focused on her career fitted the stay of the '80s, appearing with the Broadway cast of Our Municipality and receiving several Theatricalism Desk nominations. In 1992, Conroy became friends with famed scriptwriter Arthur Miller.

This friendship led to much involvement in his productions, on both make up and screen. During this obsolete, she also appeared on some television shows, miniseries, and made-as-TV movies, and met and married fellow actor Jan Munroe. She was nominated for a Tony Furnish in 1998 her write up on the Broadway impact Ride Down Mt. Morgan.

numberless of her theatrically trained colleagues, she received unexpected attention for the award-taking HBO dramatic series Six Feet Under. In behalf of her role of family matriarch Ruth Fisher, she's been recognized next to the Sift Actor's Guild, the Golden Globes, and the Emmys. Following small roles in the mainstream Maid in Manhattan and the independent Disintegrate Mommie Fade away, Conroy portrayed fictional actress Katharine Hepburn's watch over, Furnishings, in Martin Scorsese's 2004 Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator.