- 2006: Played Kitty Walker, a conservative TV-news personality in the ABC drama "Brothers & Sisters"
- 2004: Appears opposite Matthew Broderick in "The Last Shot"
- 2000: Appeared for two-week stint in the Off-Broadway production of "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler
- 2000: Had featured role in the Sundance-screened "Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her"; aired on Showtime in 2001
- 1999: Had featured role as Helena in the big screen remake of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- 1999: Returned to the NYC stage in Off-Broadway production "Bash: Latter-Day Plays", by Neil LaBute; reprised roles for TV adaptation aired on Showtime in 2000
- 1997: TV series debut as regular, portrayed the titular fantasy-prone lawyer seeking Mr Right in the award-winning "Ally McBeal" (Fox)
- 1997: Co-starred in the Broadway production of "Three Sisters" alongside Lili Taylor, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Amy Irving; played Natasha
- 1996: Breakthrough screen role as the mousy daughter of Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest in "The Birdcage"
- 1996: Played female lead in "Milk and Money"
- 1996: Appeared on stage at the Berkshire Theater Festival in "Jitta's Atonement", opposite Wiest
- 1995: First important film role, "Drunks" (received limited theatrical release as well as airings on Showtime)
- 1994: Broadway debut, as Laura in revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie"
- 1994: Feature debut in bit part in "Quiz Show"
- 1992: Had featured role in the Off-Broadway production of Caryl Churchill's "Mad Forrest"
- 1991: Debut in a TV-movie, "Darrow" (PBS)
- 1991: TV debut, "An American Story" (CBS)
- 1989: New York stage debut in "Beside Herself"
- 1988: After college, moved to NYC to pursue career
- Family settled in New Jersey in the late 1970s
- Won acclaimed for her performance in the off-Broadway play "The Loop"
- Raised in Iowa, Minnesota and upstate New York




