After a string of bit roles in films (often billed as Lolita David), this attractively sharp-featured Canadian-born player of Serbian parentage gained notice in the title role of Ron Shelton's "Blaze" (1989). As Blaze Starr, Davidovich portrayed the celebrated Louisiana stripper for whose love the married Governor Earl Long (Paul Newman) risked everything. The film's commercial failure, however, slowed down Davidovich's career as a mainstream Hollywood lead. Several parts in offbeat films followed, including a supporting role (replacing an ailing Elizabeth Perkins) in the atypical romantic comedy, "The Object of Beauty" and a lead opposite Tom Hulce in the Soviet-set drama "The Inner Circle/The Projectionist" (both 1991). In 1992, the auburn-haired actress returned to Hollywood as the adulterous wife of a possibly psychotic John Lithgow in Brian De Palma's absurdist thriller "Raising Cain" and appeared in the unsuccessful Steve Martin-vehicle "Leap of Faith". Moving increasingly into popular fare, Davidovich was cast as the hooker girlfriend of cop Wesley Snipes in the tepid crime drama "Boiling Point" (1993) and the other woman in Richard Gere and Sharon Stone's marriage in "Intersection" (1994). She later was featured in Ron Shelton's biopic "Cobb" (also 1994), had a small role as the newly divorced mother of Gaby Hoffman (who grows up to be Demi Moore) in "Now and Then" (1995) and was James Woods' ditsy wife in Jason Alexander's "For Better or Worse" (also 1995). The actress had roles in three diverse comedies released in 1997: the New Age romance "Santa Fe", opposite Gary Cole; the children's adventure "Jungle2Jungle", with Tim Allen and JoBeth Williams; and Paul Schrader's "Touch", with Skeet Ulrich, Christopher Walken and Bridget Fonda.
On the small screen, Davidovich has fared somewhat better. She earned a CableACE Award nomination for her performance as an inmate in "Prison Stories: Women on the Inside" (HBO, 1991). Davidovich also received respectable reviews as the social worker counseling abused children in the award-winning "Indictment: The McMartin Trial" (HBO, 1995), as an FBI agent who befriends an Amish widow (Patty Duke) in "Harvest of Fire" (CBS, 1996) and as a tough-talking woman who isn't what she appears to be in the hostage drama "Deadly Silence" (HBO, 1997).
Davidovich kept her career momentum going with appearances in several made-for-television movies and supporting roles in lesser films, and in 1999 she gathered renewed attention for her supporting work in "Gods and Monsters," the moody, much-heralded biopic of "Frankenstein" director James Whale (Ian McKellan) in which she played the fed-up ex of Whale's studly gardener (Brendan Fraser). She also re-teamed with Shelton for his boxing comedy "Play It to the Bone" (1999) as the road-tripping girlfriend of prizefighter Antonio Banderas; and had a role opposite Russell Crowe in acclaimed TV writer David E. Kelley's big-screen hockey comedy "Mystery, Alaska" (1999), directed by Jay Roach. Davidovich returned to television in 2001 for the well-received NBC miniseries "Steve Martini's The Judge" (based on the bestseller) and other telepics, as well as for a recurring role on the first season of the ratings-challenged CBS C.I.A. drama "The Agency" (2001- ). In 2003, she re-emerged on the big screen for two high-profile projects helmed by her longtime companion Shelton. First up was the intense "Dark Blue," in which she effectively played the long-suffering prison guard wife of Kurt Russell's corrupt Los Angeles detective amid the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. She also re-joined Shelton with an appearance in the crime thriller "Hollywood Homicide" opposite Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.