Trivia

Studied acting at Illinois State University.

Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play): in 1983 for "Steaming" and in 1985 for David Rabe's "Hurlyburly." She was also nominated as Best Actress (Play) in 1992 for "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard".

She appeared in numerous TV commercials for products such as Greyhound buses, StaPuf fabric softener, Red Lobster restaurants and Gerber baby food.

Discovered her love for drama when she acted in a high school production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner".

Daughter, Margaret Elizabeth Braine (born 1989) and son, Thomas Carter Braine (born December 8, 1993) with her husband, Tim Braine.

Will play "Sally Durant Plummer" in a limited-run revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies", to open on Broadway this spring. (January 2001)

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.

Worked at both Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York and the Goodman Theater in Chicago after graduating from college.

She was nominated for a 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for the play, "The Lady With All the Answers" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

She was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2004 in Austin, Texas.

She was nominated for a 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "The Goodbye People" at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

She has English, as well as some German, Scottish, and Welsh, ancestry.