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