Harring spent the next year traveling through Asia, exploring Europe and working as a social worker in India. In 2006, Harring joined the cast of the FX critically acclaimed crime drama, The Shield, as defense attorney Rebecca Doyle. Between 2009 and 2010, she also had a recurring role as Evelyn Bass/Elizabeth Fisher in The CW series Gossip Girl. She guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2003, Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2010, and NCIS: Los Angeles in 2012. In 1987, she married Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck. While she retains the title of Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen, the couple divorced in 1989.