- Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "The Producers", the new Mel Brooks musical. She had been nominated in the same category ten years earlier, in 1991, for "The Will Rogers Follies".
- Skipped the sixth grade.
- Nominated for an Outer Critics' Circle Award for her performance in the Broadway Play, "The Nance", written by Douglas Carter Beane, starring Nathan Lane, Directed by Jack O'Brien. Production won 3 Tony Awards for John Lee Beatty's sets, Ann Roth's Costumes and sound design by Leon Rothenberg.
- Graduated from San Marcos High School, Santa Barbara, California in 1982.
- Younger sister of Linus Huffman.
- Her ex-husband was head men's basketball coach at Manhattan's Hunter College.
- Her brother John Pearley Huffman often writes for Car and Driver Magazine.
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