Nominated for Broadway's 1998 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge".
Shares her birthday with Meg Ryan (1961) and Jodie Foster (1962).
Nominated for a 1998 Tony for Lead Actress in a Play for "A View From the Bridge".
Lives across the street from her "The West Wing" (1999) co-star Janel Moloney.
Dating actor Richard Jenik since February 2003. Announced live on WCBM Radio's "Tom Moore Show" that she has accepted his proposal and is now engaged to be married around Christmas, 2004. Her birthday precedes Jenik's by two days.
Was discovered by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward while acting in a play at Kenyon, directed by Newman.
Graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
While struggling to make it as an actress, she told people who inquired about what she did for a living that she was a photographer for "National Geographic."
Formerly lived with Dennis Gagomiros, a computer programmer, in a Manhattan loft. They first met at the New York City Playhouse in 1982. [2001]
She won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for "Present Laughter" in 1997. She shared the award with Deborah Findlay and Celia Weston.
