Apart from her acting roles, she is no doubt best known as the wife of Elvis Presley, whom she married in 1967.

Her first major acting role was that of Jenna Wade, whom she played for almost five years in the successful television series Dallas. Apart from her role in the Naked Gun movies, and appearing in the television series Melrose Place, she has been absent from the movie and television screens for a while.

Priscilla Presley has also acted as producer or co-producer on several shows and mini series based on the life of Elvis Presley.