- Lovely, fragile-looking, frizzy red-haired leading lady of stage, film and TV who made her movie debut with the title role of Julia (1977) in 1977, playing Vanessa Redgrave in earlier years. Redgrave won a supporting Oscar.
- Primarily a stage actress, she won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Fitzgerald (aka Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald) entitled "Only a Broken String of Pearls." She also directs, having helmed a stage production of "'Night, Mother" at the Interact Theatre in Los Angeles.
- Her acting mentor was the late Lauren Bacall.
- Offered a full scholarship at Juilliard School of Drama in the 1970s.
- Gave birth to her 1st child at age 41, a son Ethan Davison on April 5, 1996. Child's father is her now ex-2nd husband, Bruce Davison.
- Was leaning toward a dance career when surgery in high school cut short her pursuit.
- Starring and receiving rave reviews for her "brilliant comic timing" in Accomplice at the Colony Theatre in Burbank thru March 13, 2005. (February 2005)
- Born in Paris and raised in Italy and Japan, her father (Robert Grant Pelikan) was a financial attaché for various US embassies overseas and her mother (Helen Leese Biren) was a prominent psychologist.
- Attended Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland
- Currently starring in The American Premiere of Never Land with The Rogue Machine Theatre Company in LA. (November 2009)
- Currently starring in and receiving rave reviews in the critically-acclaimed Los Angeles Times Critics' Choice hit production of Daisy in the Dreamtime - a Fountain Theatre production at Inside the Ford at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. (April 2004)
- Currently starring as "Amanda" in "The Glass Menagerie" by 'Tennesse Williams' at The Colony Theatre directed by Jessica Kubzansky in a "controversial, life changing production" of this classic play. (February 2007)
- Credits Lauren Bacall as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
- Playing Ruella in 'Communicating Doors' at the Odyssey theatre in LA (September 2002)
- As an actress, she was highly influenced by Lauren Bacall.
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