Trivia

Her husband, Terrance Sweeney, is an ex-Jesuit priest, who served as the technical advisor on the miniseries, Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir (1983). They wrote a book together, entitled, "What God Hath Joined".

Father, Major General Clarence A. Shoop, was Vice President of Hughes Aircraft Company, head of flight testing for Howard Hughes, and Commander-in-Chief of the California Air National Guard until his death in 1968. During World War II, General Shoop flew the first reconnaissance mission over Omaha Beach on D-Day.

She attended high school at Beverly Hills High School and studied at the University of Southern California.

Her brother, Steve, is a doctor in California.

One of her eight cousins once removed, is John Shoop, who is the current head coach of the Munich Ravens in the European League of Football (ELF), and is also the nephew of Elizabeth Hartman of "Un coin de ciel bleu (1965)" fame.