Attended Tamalpais High School - Mill Valley, California.

Studied acting at the Ensemble Theatre Company in Northern California.

Her father was a computer market researcher and her mother a therapist. They divorced when she was 7 and she lived with both at different stages.

Courtney had an on-and-off screen romance with Andrew Shue (Billy) during the filming of "Melrose Place" (1992) but they split up split after a year.

Was engaged to Robert Andrews.

Once considered herself overly busty with a 32DD measurement but eschewed reduction surgery in favor of yoga which she says reshaped her figure of a C cup. "My body fat got redistributed, and my breasts got smaller."

In 1999 she became a spokeswoman for Almay cosmetics, being the face of their new line of make-up "Skin Stays Clean."

Her sister Jennifer is an advertising executive.

She and her husband Roger Fishman welcomed son Jacob 'Jake' Emerson. Jake weighed in at 6 lbs, 13 oz, arrived after 12 hours of labor. [January 2008]

Ex-husband, Andrew Conrad, is a genetic scientist.