After training to become a ballet dancer, she performed with the New England Dance Conservatory, the Amherst Ballet Theater Company and the Western Massachusetts Ballet Company
An ankle injury shortened her dance career
First TV acting gig came with the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1987
In 1991, debuted on the silver screen as April O'Neil in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Received training from real-life CIA operatives for research into her role on the CBS series The Agency (2001)