- The daughter of emigrants from the former Yugoslavia, her father was from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and her mother from Slovenia. Lolita spoke only Serb-Croatian during her early years in Canada. When she was age 10, her parents divorced and she remained with her mother.
- Deliberately gained weight to play the role of busty 1950s stripper Blaze Starr in Blaze (1989), which she won over 600 other actresses.
- Her husband writer/director/producer Ron Shelton, was once a minor league baseball player for Baltimore. They have a daughter, Valentina (born 1999).
- Currently resides in Los Angeles and Ojai, California.
- Studied at the Herbert Berghof Studios in New York.
- Born on the exact same date as Forest Whitaker.
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