- Girard was co-starring opposite Jeff Bridges as Donna Baker in The Fabulous Baker Boys as Beau Bridges wife, when she was the victim of an extremely violent crime, off the set, and her role had to be cut from the picture.
- She studied with the father of modern mime, Etienne DeCroux, in Paris after which he invited her to star in his troupe. While in Paris, she also studied acrobatics. Philippe Petit (Man on Wire), her fellow tutee, plied her with questions about the World Trade Center, NY, then under construction.
- When she met producer Burt Sugarman to reprise her stage role in the film version of Extremities, she was so indignant over type-casting in Hollywood she suggested that he cast an actress of color, suggesting Alfre Woodard for her role, which he did.
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