Lynn made her feature acting debut as a teenager searching for her birth father in the uneven independent film "The Girl in the Watermelon" (1994). Supporting roles in Gregory Hines' "Bleeding Hearts" (1994) and "Take a Number" (1996) followed before she joined the ranks of hyphenates. Lynn served as executive producer and co-star of Julie Davis' debut comedy "I Love You...Don't Touch Me!" (lensed 1996; released in 1998) and assumed similar duties on Tommy O'Haver's "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" (also 1998). Both film featured the actress as a the advice-doling sidekick to the lead. Lynn moved to the director's chair, sharing responsibility with Bradford Tatum on "Standing in Fishes" (1999), an independent comedy about a struggling artist (Tatum) whose life is disrupted by both a mysterious woman and his girlfriend (Lynn and Lauren Fox).