Auditioned for the role of Lois Lane in Superman (1978), but lost to Margot Kidder.

Graduated high school from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia

Won a Tony in 1985 for "A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg".

Graduated from Harvard University (specifically, its then female-only Radcliffe College), with a BA in history and literature.

She was thirty-four years old when she played the high-school aged Rizzo in Grease (1978).

Lives with Daniel Gillham, 1990-?

Provides the voice over for the film about the history of Pearl Harbor shown at the USS Arizona Memorial for the National Park Service.