milestones
Year
Milestone
1989 
Feature film debut, "Dead Poets Society"
1990 
Had recurring role on the ABC sitcom "Roseanne"
1993 
Played a stripper in the independent feature "Twenty Bucks"
1994 
Portrayed the love interest of Chris Elliott's "Cabin Boy"
1995 
Played recurring role on ABC's "NYPD Blue"
1996 
Appeared in the Arnold Schwarzennegger vehicle "Eraser"
1997 
First collaboration with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson "Hard Eight/Sydney"; played Samuel L Jackson's girlfriend
1997 
Guest starred on CBS' "Brooklyn South", starring husband Dylan Walsh
1997 
Played the adult film performer wife of a black porn star in Anderson's "Boogie Nights"
1998 
Had regular role of Felicity, the office receptionist, on CBS' "L.A. Doctors"
1998 
Appeared as a rival to Molly Ringwald for the affections of George Newbern in the Lifetime movie "Twice Upon a Time"
1999 
Starred as a troubled drug addict who finds an unlikely romance with a policeman in "Magnolia"; Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the part specifically for her
2001 
Acted in the ensemble of "Speaking of Sex"; premiered at the Chicago Film Festival
2001 
Had leading role in the film "Rain"
2002 
Acted alongside Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey in "Wise Girls"
2003 
Became a regular on the series "Threat Matrix"
2003 
Played a woman who tries to seduce Jude Law in "Cold mountain"
2004 
Portrayed the mother to Ashton Kutcher's character in "The Butterfly Effect"
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