Mary Barrett Dyer, a Quaker martyr who was hanged in Boston in 1660 for refusing to renounce her beliefs in freedom of thought, speech, and religion for all people, was her 11th great-grandmother.
Studied Shakespeare in Los Angeles with Alfred Molina.
Danced the mambo with Samuel L. Jackson in a promo for CBS.
Shares a birthday on December 9th with Dame Judi Dench, Felicity
Huffman, Kirk Douglas, John Malkovich, Donny Osmond, John Cassavetes, and Redd Foxx.