Debra Monk Biography

Fast Facts

• Was voted "Best Personality" in her high-school graduating class
• Has worked extensively in theater, starting with cowriting, codirecting and costarring in Pump Boys and Dinettes, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical in 1982
• Appeared as Mrs
• Boyle in Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway in 1990
• Two years later, she made her film debut in the movie version, playing Aunt Dorothy
• Played the role of Gerald Ford's would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore in Stephen Sondheim's 1990 off-Broadway musical Assassins