Has a B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from U.C.L.A., an M.Ed. from U.C.L.A., and an M.A. in Mathematics from U.C. Riverside.
Purchased her future gravesite in order to film a funeral scene for her first movie.
Worked at various times in her life as a movie theater cashier, bookkeeper, computer programmer on a space telescope project, hypnotherapist, high school math teacher, and college math instructor.