Trivia

Resides in Manhattan's fabled West Side apartment building The Apthorp, whose residents include Cyndi Lauper, Rosie O'Donnell, Lena Horne, Conan O'Brien and Steve Kroft.

She portrayed Nick Nolte's mother in Le prince des marées (1991), but in real life she is actually nine years younger than he is. (However, she played the mother of Nick Nolte's young character, in the flashback, played by an actor young enough to realistically be her son).

She was women's Junior Tennis Champion.

Her son Gabriel Joseph Reale was born on July 23, 1992.

Drama training in London followed by two seasons at the Bristol Old Vic.

Has been nominated four times for Tony Awards: as Best Actress (Play), in 1983 for "Plenty", in 1984 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten", and in 1989 for "Spoils of War"; and as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play), in 1988 for "Serious Money". Twice, she has been a consecutive nominee two years in a row (1983 and 1984, 1988 and 1989). She has yet to win.

She attended London South Collegiate Institute in London, Ontario and Glendon College in Toronto. She attended and graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.

London stage debut as the female lead in David Hare's "Knuckle".

Won the prestigious London Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her stage performance in "Plenty", for which she was also Tony nominated.