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• Started acting in theater before her teens, but was prohibited by her mother—a drama teacher—from auditioning for film and TV roles until she could pay for her own head shots.
• Made film debut in The Darklings, a 1999 cable movie starring Suzanne Somers and Timothy Busfield. 
• Has written a series of teen books called Chronicles of the Girl Wars, inspired by her experiences in high school, that she has described as "Mean Girls meets Ugly Betty."
• With her husband, John Reardon, was accepted to study Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the summer of 2012.
• Was promoted to a series regular before the second season of ABC's Once Upon a Time premiered in September 2012.