- 2006: Cast in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" based on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series
- 2005: Appeared in the comedy "Beauty Shop" opposite Queen Latifah
- 2003: Starred in the Darren Star series "Miss Match"; received a golden globe nomination for best actress in a musical or comedy (2003)
- 2002: Appeared in crime comedy "Scorched" with Woody Harrelson; screened at Cannes
- 2002: Made Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the stage adaptation of "The Graduate"
- 2001: Executive produced and voiced the character of Sharon Spitz in the Fox Family Channel animated series "Braceface"
- 2000: Undertook first Shakespearean screen role, the Princess of France, in "Love's Labour's Lost", Kenneth Branagh's musical reworking of the Bard's comedy
- 1999: Co-starred opposite Brendan Fraser in "Blast From the Past"
- 1997: First offering from French Kiss Productions, "Excess Baggage", fizzled at box office
- 1997: Played Batgirl in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin"
- 1995: Signed a deal worth between $7 and 10 million to produce and star in two movies for Columbia Pictures; also snared a three-year non-exclusive "first-look" pact with the studio for her production company, First Kiss Productions
- 1995: Attended Shakespeare & Company, a month-long classics "boot camp" at Edith Wharton's home, the Mount, in the Massachusetts' Berkshires
- 1995: Starred as Cher in "Clueless", Amy Heckerling's updated version of Jane Austin's "Emma"
- 1995: Started her production company, First Kiss Productions
- 1993: Appeared in three videos of the rock band Aerosmith ("Cryin'", "Amazing" and "Crazy")
- 1993: Feature acting debut, "The Crush"
- 1993: TV-movie debut, "Judith Krantz's Torch Song" (ABC)
- 1993: Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15 (date approximate)
- 1992: TV acting debut, guest shot on ABC's "The Wonder Years"
- 1990: Attended her first acting workshop at 13 (date approximate)
- 1989: Bat mitzvahed at age 13 (date approximate)
- 1984: Began modeling at the age of 8 (date approximate)
- 1980: Saw her first plays in London at age three with her father and older brother (date approximate)
- Her father found her a print agent
- Played a suicidal lesbian coke addict in L.A. stage production of "Carol's Eve'"
- TV commercial debut, an ad for Domino's Pizza
- Raised in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb of San Francisco; spent summers in England
- Won fourth-place prize at a county fair for performing a routine to the theme song from "Flashdance"
- Studied ballet as a child




