1989 Presidential Scholar while at Winston-Salem, NC, North Carolina School of the Arts. Did summer stock in Illinois and South Dakota while in high school.



Studied at North Carolina School of the Arts Won the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding Broadway debut of an actress. Is the first English speaking voice actress ever to provide the English voice of Hitomi in the Dead or Alive video game series starting with Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (2006) (VG). She was nominated for a 1994 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.