American actress born in Teaneck, New Jersey, with a childhood spent in Delaware, Illinois, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Nominated for a 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her role as Darlene in Broken.
Series regular on Lenny, Townies, and Blame it on Ernie, as well as eleven other pilots that did not go to series.
Recurring roles in several notable television series, including The West Wing, The Killing, Flashforward, Everwood, The Riches, The Bridge, Will & Grace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mistresses, and Roseanne.
Played Kirsten, Rose Nylund's daughter, in the final season of The Golden Girls, Ronni, the mistress of Joey Tribbiani's father, on Friends, and Claire, the waitress at Pete's Luncheonette, in the pilot episode of The Seinfeld Chronicles.
First professional acting job was Myrna the Mean Waitress in the sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Psycho II, in 1983, and its successor, Psycho III, in 1986.
Starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen in the action/thriller Cobra in 1986.
Feels blessed that writer/director Phil Alden Robinson cast her in almost all of his movies, including In The Mood, Field of Dreams, Sneakers, Sum of All Fears, and The Angriest Man in Brooklyn.
Nominated for a 2015 Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actress- Comedy for her role in Mentor.
Appeared in over 25 plays in Los Angeles and won numerous Dramalogue Awards, including the 1999 Ovation Award for a Featured Role in the play Risk Everything.