Became partially paralyzed in the face on a set of one of her movies in recent years. She was eventually diagnosed with face paralysis, and even spoke about it in a 2008 issue of People Magazine.
Admitted that when she first auditioned for Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) she lied about her age because she feared that being 29 at the time she was too old to play a high school student.
As executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA, she became acting president of the union on March 23, 2016, succeeding Ken Howard, who had died earlier that day; Carteris was subsequently elected president of the union April 9, 2016.