Decided to become an actor after playing the Little Red Hen in a kindergarten production of Chicken Little
As a member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, she starred in a 1997 production of A Streetcar Named Desire (directed by husband Terry Kinney), playing Stella opposite Gary Sinise's Stanley and John C
Reilly's Mitch
Her second pregnancy was incorporated into a Law & Order: Criminal Intent storyline by having her character act as a surrogate mother for her sister