Raised in Almonte, Ontario, Young created, produced, and starred as Gloria Gopher on the hit family television-series Under the Umbrella Tree, which aired both in the United States (on the Disney Channel) and Canada (on the CBC and YTV).
She was also the puppeteer for a character on Sesame Park, the Canadian version of Sesame Street.
Young also starred in the second Care Bears television special, 1984's The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine.