Announced to her parents at the age of 15 that she wanted to be an actress. She submitted a tape to Junior Star Search and won in the Junior acting division for the year.
She was unaware that archive footage of herself was being used to make the CD-ROM game Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge (1995) (VG), until after its release in stores. Yet she insists the game is "definitely better" than her movie Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994), on which "Revenge" is based.