Best known for performing the character of Annie Whitman in the television series “Life as We Know It” in 2004 and 2005
Even though she obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University in 1985, she always wanted to become a professional actress, so she later obtained a master’s degree in theater from the University of California, Los Angeles
She is the daughter of actress Mollie and lawyer Karl Grabemann, and she married producer Brian Valente on May 28, 2005
She performed the character of Hazel Haibach in the episode “White as the Driven Snow” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2014