Although she was a newcomer to daytime television when she joined Another World, she has appeared in many regional theater productions, such as Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, What the Butler Saw, Travesties, Richard II, Women Beware Women, Reckless, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, The Importance of Being Earnest and Agnes of God. Her credits also include the independent films Oblivion Ballroom and Axis.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Rhodes now lives in Manhattan. She graduated from Southern Oregon State College with a B.F.A. in acting, and she won the Dang Kook Award for Outstanding Female of the Graduating Class. She received an M.F.A. in acting from Temple University.