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• Heard about and auditioned for a role in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders while working as a copy aide at the Tulsa Tribune.
• Spent seven years balancing work and study, before finally graduating from Stanford University in 1989 with a degree in English.
• Runs her own company, The Malibu Gum Factory, which packages chewing gum along with trading cards featuring local surfers.
• Charlie Sheen, who is husband Dave Anderson's friend from high-school, was the best man at their wedding.