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• Raised in a trailer park in Lake Orion, MI, following her parents' divorce; both her father and brother are electrical engineers.
• As a teenager, survived a three-year bout with immune thrombocytopenia, a life-threatening blood disease.
• Was one of two opening-night understudies for the 1993-94 off-Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley's Four Dogs and a Bone; Debra Messing was the other.
• Made her TV debut in a 1994 episode of New York Undercover.
• Won a Daytime Emmy (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series) in 1998 for her role on Guiding Light.