Lived with comedian and playwright Lewis Black for several years in the late 70s and early 80s.
Has four younger sisters, one of whom (Victoria Torie Clarke) worked
for the Pentagon as its chief public relations official, from mid-2001 until mid-2003.
Best remembered as the beautiful tomboy ingenue Valerian in the cult fantasy adventure Dragonslayer (1981).
Graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
She was awarded the 1989 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Our Country's Good" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.