As an actress, Bosworth is perhaps best known for playing Sister Simone, the young friend of Audrey Hepburn's character Sister Luke, in "The Nun's Story" (1959). Directed by Fred Zinnemann, the film was a major box office success and nominated for multiple Academy Awards. In 1958, upon learning she was cast in "The Nun's Story", she also learned she was pregnant. She subsequently received an abortion at an underground abortionist in Manhattan"." Shortly after, she boarded a plane to Rome to meet Fred Zinnemann, where she began to hemorrhage. In Rome, she was sent to a hospital convent where she was to learn about being a nun. The nun discovered she wasn't feeling well due to the abortion and rushed her to the hospital for care. The film was delayed for her recovery.