Raised in Rhode Island after a Memphis birth and trained at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama, she entered the professional world onstage in the 1993 revival of In the Summer House at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, later originating the role of Cybil in The Altruists and appearing in productions such as Noises Off. Her screen debut came as Mercy Lewis in The Crucible (1996), and she gained wider rec…
