Made her film debut in the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory
Also made her TV debut in 1976 in an episode of Rhoda (Valerie Harper, the star of the CBS sitcom, was married to her father, Richard Schaal, at the time)
Was the voice in the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish commercials
Involved with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Institute and the World Wildlife Fund