At age 4, appeared in her first commercial playing Suzanne Somers' daughter
Studied acting at the Professional Children's School in New York City
Won the monologue category of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival at age 15
Got her start on television in Growing Pains and its 1988 spin-off Just the Ten of Us
Studied at the Epicurean Cooking School in Los Angeles; worked as a chef at a French restaurant following the cancellation of her sitcom Just the Ten of Us
After Aaron Spelling's Savannah (1996) was canceled, she bought a trailer and traveled around the United States for a year
In 1999, replaced Ally Walker on NBC's The Profiler at the beginning of the show's fourth season
Appeared in a 2007 stage production of Black and Bluenstein in Santa Monica
Replaced Marcy Walker in the role of Liza Colby on All My Children in 2009