Appeared on "Sesame Street" (1969) as a child.

After five seasons on "Third Watch" (1999) she left for a role on "24" (2001), ironically the sixth season of "Third Watch" (1999), the only one she didn't take part in, was the show's last season.

In the beginning of her career, Raver paid her bills by acting in commercials that brought her to Venice for a Visa ad and in a Jeep for Blade Runner (1982) director Ridley Scott.

Auditioned to the movie The Last of the Mohicans (1992).

She and her "Lipstick Jungle" (2008) co-star, Brooke Shields, both attended the same grade school.

Big break came with her Broadway debut in the play "Holiday" in which she co-starred with Laura Linney (The Truman Show (1998)) and Tony Goldwyn.

Son, Luke West Boyer, born 2002.

Lives in New York and spends her free time running, practicing yoga and being near her close-knit family.

Co-starred in the Williamstown production of "The Glimmer Brothers, written by Warren Leight, this year's Tony Award winner for "Sideman". She costarred with David Schwimmer ( NBC's "Friends" (1994)) and John Spencer (NBC's "The West Wing" (1999)). [Summer 1999]

Mother, Tina Raver; step-father, Chris Meltesen; and older sister, Cybele

Received BFA from Boston University School for the Arts in 1991.

Other television credits include a lead role on NBC's "Trinity" (1998)and guest starring roles in such series as "The Practice" (1997), "Spin City" (1996), and NBC's "Law & Order" (1990), and a recurring role on "Central Park West" (1995). She also appeared in the feature film City Hall (1996) with Al Pacino.

At age 38, she gave birth to her second child. Son, Leo Kipling, was born on October 9, 2007 in NYC.

A fine arts graduate of Boston University, Raver continues to study theater in New York with teacher and mentor Wynn Handman. She is fluent in French and German, a language that she learned as a child from her German-born mother.