Attended high school with actor Gene Gabriel.

Her wedding to Sanford Bookstaver was featured in the February 2004 issue of InStyle Magazine.

Her father is an Orthodox rabbi.

Daughter, Avalon Leone Bookstaver was born in Los Angeles at 5 a.m. on Aug. 5, 2005 and weighed in at 8 lbs. 14 oz

Gave birth to a girl - Rosabel Rosalind Kurth. She weighed 7 lbs, 10 ounces. She was 20 1/2 inches with black hair and blue eyes. Her middle name comes from the recently deceased Rosalind Cash, whom both Rena and her (then) husband absolutely adored. [17 September 1996]

Announced her engagement to director/producer Sanford Bookstaver. [September 2002]

She was married to Wallace Kurth who plays her husband on "General Hospital" (1963).