Trivia

She has Dutch (the origin of her surname), English, and French ancestry.

Both of her parents have doctorates.

Daughter, Charlotte Emily (born 2002).

Gave birth to a boy named Asher Sloane on October 7th, 2005

Studied at Rhodes University. That was the college where she earned her degree.

She and actor Alessandro Nivola played brother and sister in Mansfield Park (1999) and husband and wife in Junebug (2005).

Attended a very strict school. They had to wear uniforms and were not allowed to wear makeup.

In 2016 she starred as 'Sonia Kovitzky (Character)', owner of an art gallery, who's in cahoots with the Russian mob, in the fourth season of Ray Donovan.

Born on the same date as Viola Davis.

Her first agent was Moonyeenn Lee from South Africa.

She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Schindler's List (1993).