Biografia

3 marzo 1949 · Filadelfia, Pennsylvania, Stati Uniti

1,70 m

Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1969.

Coincidentally she and Jon Gries were in two movies together 19 years apart. Both were in Real Genius (1985) and Napoleon Dynamite (2004). Her roles were both very small. The two movies don't share the same staff for casting, writing, producing, or directing.

I'll never forget Esquire magazine once ran a survey on all these popular towns in the United States and Philadelphia came up as the vendetta state! [laughs] So, I'm used to that kind of rowdy East Coast toughee stuff. It's a pleasure to be back in those shoes after living in L.A. for so long.

[on seamless chemistry with the entire Ray Donovan (2013) family] Jon Voight is a wonderful actor and he's very thorough in his approach. One thing David Hollander told me is he couldn't believe how easy it was for me to just sink into this family, and get all the different people. All their different jokes and rhythms. He was impressed by that. I said, "Well, these are my people. What are you talking about?!"

I used to hang out with Tim Burton back in the Beetlejuice - Spiritello porcello (1988) days because a friend of mine, Glenn Shadix, was playing the Interior Decorator (Otho). The big guy with the crew cut hair.