Emerging from a family where her father worked as a jockey, she turned toward the performing arts, studying drama first at Colorado Women’s College and later at Parsons College. Her early screen work included a role in the 1976 western Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, followed by a part in the adventure film The Food of the Gods, both alongside Marjoe Gortner, and a navigator’s cameo in the cross-country…
