Biography

Independent Shorts International Film Festival 2024 Best Supporting Actress Award Winner for the film named Short Film of the Year, Whatever Happened to Jonny Faith.

Not many actors can say they have worked with Hollywood royalty like Carol Burnett, Dick Martin, Jackie Cooper, John Ritter, Bob Newhart (to name a few), appeared Off Broadway in New York's oldest Vaudeville Theater, stepped away from acting for almost 15 years to raise two magnificent children, acquired 4 SEC licenses to sell multi-million dollar portfolios as a Vice President of a national investment firm, got thrown out of Carnegie Mellon Acting program for working too much as an actor, graduated from the UCLA Theater, Film and TV Department 20 years after she started and was almost the first American woman to breast feed on prime time television (Thank you, Mark Tinker!). Oh yes, and of course, became the beloved, internationally recognized 1980's pop culture icon, The Sexy American Girlfriend from John Hughes' Sixteen Candles.

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