Raised in NYC

Made professional acting debut in Joan Micklin Silver's "Album"; produced Off-Broadway; co-starred Kevin Bacon

Appeared in the failed pilot "For Lovers Only"

Film debut, "Baby, It's You"

Featured in the CBS TV-movie "Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer"

Played the younger sister of Veronica Hamel's high-priced call girl in the ABC TV-movie "Sessions"

Starred in the "The Great Love Experiment", a presentation of "ABC Afterschool Specials"

Co-starred in the TV-movies "A Good Sport" and "The Baron and the Kid" (both CBS)

Featured as a British schoolgirl in the Broadway play "Pack of Lies"

Appeared on TV series "Family Ties"; first collaboration with future husband Michael J Fox

Starred as a troubled young woman from an esteemed New England family who ends up living on the streets in "The Little Sister", an "American Playhouse" (PBS) presentation

Played the titular kidnapped Olympic athlete in the fact-based TV-movie "The Abduction of Kari Swenson" (NBC)

Starred in the independent drama feature "Promised Land"

Co-starred with Fox in the feature "Bright Lights, Big City"

Played Kathleen Kennedy in the ABC miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts"

Had a featured role in the Broadway production of the Neil Simon comedy "Jake's Women"

Had key role as the fiance of a murdered Hassidic jeweler in Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us"

Starred as a con woman who dupes men she meets through personal ads in the CBS TV-movie "Dying to Love You"

Played a mother who discovers her two daughters are afflicted with a disease that makes daylight deadly in the TV-movie "Children of the Dark"

Guest starred on an episode of the ABC series "Spin City", cast opposite Fox as former girlfriend Renee

Reprised role of Renee in a subsequent episode of "Spin City"

Gave an Emmy-nominated performance in a guest role as a rape victim on the NBC spin-off drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"