Turco made her television acting debut in 1987, on the soap opera Guiding Light as Dinah Marler, going on to the soap opera All My Children as Melanie. She played the role of April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. She guest starred in Party of Fiveas Annie Mott, a single mother who is also a recovering alcoholic, co-starred in The Agency as graphic artist Terri Lowell, and in the third season of Rescue Me as science