Best known for performing the character of Mrs․ Kamino in the action movie “Speed” starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock in 1994
She studied dramatic arts at the Working Theatre of New York with teachers Kristin Linklater, Peter Kass, and Joseph Chaikin
She performed the character of an elderly lady in the episode “Bloodhounds” of the police procedural television series “The Mentalist” in 2011
On top of being an actress in movies and on television, she is also a professor and teaches theatre practice in voice at the USC School of Dramatic Arts