A native of Queens, she moved often as a child because of her father's FBI work, later graduating with a BA in English from the College of New Rochelle. Beginning in off-off-Broadway and regional venues like the Denver Center, she made her Broadway debut in I'm Not Rappaport (1984) and won a Tony for Best Actress in a Play for Lost in Yonkers (1991), with further nominations for The Shadow Box and…
