American actress
Studied acting with Wynn Handman, who was a protege of Sandy Meisner.
At the time she was playing terminally ill cancer patient Vivian Bearing in "Wit," her brother was battling cancer. She shaved her head for the role.
Veteran stage actress who has won numerous acting awards, including the Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel awards for her searing performance in "Wit." She won a second Obie award for "Talking Heads."
Was nominated for Broadways 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner s "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."
(September 2005) Appearing in filmmaker Ann-Sofi Sidens experimental film "QM, I think I call her QM", at the Massachusetts Museum of Comtemporary Art (MASS MOCA).
Played Tim Robbins mother in two different films: Five Corners and Bob Roberts.
K. Todd Freeman, Jeffrey King, Ron Leibman, Cynthia Mace, Joe Mantello, Ellen McLaughlin, Stephen Spinella and she were awarded the 1992 Drama Logue Award for Ensemble Performance for "Angels in America" Part One "Millennium Approaches" and Part Two: "Perestroika" in a Gordon Davidson/Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
