Pare landed a small role in "Bonanno: A Godfather's Story", a mafia TV movie, during her last year of high school, which convinced her to pursue acting as a career. Pare also found small roles in an episode of the horror/teen TV series Big Wolf on Campus and in the French film En Vacances in 1999. Pare dropped out of the fine-arts program at a Montreal college and pursued acting for two years. After auditioning for a bit part for the independent film "Stardom" (2000), director Denys Arcand chose Pare to star in the film. Pare played a naive ice hockey player propelled to international stardom as a supermodel, co-starring with Dan Aykroyd; the role paralleled her own involvement with the film. The comedic satire closed the 2000 Cannes Film Festival with mixed reviews from critics. That year, she was voted one of the 25 most beautiful people in Canada by a Canadian magazine, a title she didn't take very seriously.

In 2007, actress shot the TV pilot, Protect and Serve, with Dean Cain. Pare also shot the independent romantic comedy, "Shoe at Your Foot", co-starring Justin Bartha, Melanie Laurent and Billy Boyd.