Doty became well-recognized with her performance in the dark comedy/drama film Sideways (2004), playing the minor, yet crucial, role of Cammi, the waitress with whom a main character, Jack, copulates before getting caught in flagrante delicto by her cuckolded husband.
"The New York critic Huneker disliked his 'mincing gait' and complained of a 'lack of virility in his impersonations.' Whether this was fair comment or merely a Puritan critic's reaction to what was then hot gossip, is hard to know; it was widely rumoured that Plançon had been caught in his dressing room with the composer Herman Bemberg 'in flagrante delicto'." (See Michael Scott, The Record of Singing, published by Duckworth, London, 1978; page 84).