Had early TV credit with a guest role on "Law & Order" (NBC)

Featured in Billy Bob Thornton's short "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade", the basis of his acclaimed 1996 feature "Sling Blade"

Appeared in the Utah Shakespeare Festival staging of "As You Like It" as Rosalind

Acted in an episode of the short-lived CBS series "New York News"

Featured in the "Lifestories: Families in Crisis" presentation "Someone Had to Be Benny" (HBO), a story of a terminally ill teenager who refuses his medicine

Featured in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum

Played the woman who introduced the phrase "yada yada" into the canon of "Seinfeld" in a particularly memorable episode of the NBC sitcom

Starred as Josie Hines in Neil Simon's "Proposals" on stage in Los Angeles

Starred in the South Coast Repertory stage production "Collected Stories"

Made Broadway debut, reprising role of Josie in the Broadhurst Theater run of "Proposals"

Acted in Barry Levinson's political satire "Wag the Dog"

Featured in the independent drama "Wilbur Falls"

Acted in the Academy Award-winning quirky independent comedy short "My Mother Dreams the Satan Disciples of New York"

Guest starred on "Cosby" (CBS), improvising a scene with Bill Cosby that remained in the final cut of the episode

Had a recurring role on "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place", playing Ashley, the pushy, self-possessed girlfriend of goofy Berg (Ryan Reynolds)

Played a news anchorwoman in an episode of ABC's "It's Like, You Know..."

Played a pregnant young woman who won't indentify the father of her unborn child in the ensemble romantic comedy "Friends and Lovers"

Was made a regular on the revamped ABC sitcom "Two Guys and a Girl"