Howard's acting roles included decoratively aristocratic women, such as the Countess of Rothes in the 1979 TV movie S.O.S. Titanic and Countess de Beaulieu in 1982's TV version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. In a miniseries of The Bourne Identity (with Michael Habeck and others in the cast), she played the general's unfaithful wife, Angelique.