- Was personally involved with writer-director Albert Brooks in the 1980s, who cast her in his film Lost in America (1985).
- Once romantically involved with director/choreographer Bob Fosse, she was cast in a small role in his film All That Jazz (1979). Her role ended up on the cutting room floor.
- Auditioned for her first role in the Off-Off Broadway play, "Mutual Benefit Life", written by playwright Robert Patrick and directed by Norman René ("Prelude to a Kiss"), just to get experience in auditioning, and to her surprise was cast after one reading. She was also cast by Rene in the next play at the same theater and was seen in it and immediately signed for Airplane! (1980).
- Credits Peter Graves as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
- She has English, German, and Irish ancestry.
- She is the daughter of Harriet Yuellig (née Bishop), a model and singer, and Jerald William "Jerry" Hagerty, Jr., a musician.
- Married to life insurance industry and theatrical producer Richard Kagan (2007).
- Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.
- Summers with her family in the Lakes Region area of Maine.
- On Broadway in "Mornings at Seven" (2002)
- Despite playing Kathryn Erbe's mom in What About Bob? (1991) and Tom Green's mom in Freddy Got Fingered (2001) in real life she is only 10 years older than Erbe and only 16 years older than Green.
- She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Airplane! (1980).
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