Age: 32.
Birthplace: Baltimore.
Occupation: Actress.
Current home: Los Angeles.
Marital status: Divorced.
Children: None.
Current Projects: ”Nothing in Common,” a movie with Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks, and ”All Is Forgiven,” an NBC-TV series scheduled to begin in March.
The last good movie I saw was: ”Out of Africa.”
I stay home to watch: ”Hill Street Blues” and ”Cheers.”
The book I`ve been recommending lately is: ”Midnight`s Children,” by Salman Rushdie.
Favorite performer: Eric Clapton.
Favorite childhood memory: The only time I caught a ball in a neighborhood softball game. It won the game.
Personal hero: Tina Turner. That woman has survived everything: wife-beating, losing her money and a faltering career.
When nobody`s looking, I: Do crossword puzzles and read mystery novels.
If I were going to the moon, I`d take: Bill Forsythe`s movies, ”Local Hero,” ”Gregory`s Girl” and ”Comfort and Joy,” and C.S. Lewis`, ”The Chronicles of Narnian.”
My fantasy is: To dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
The worst advice my mother ever gave me: Acting is just the whipped cream of life. You have to do something substantial to make a living.
If I could change one thing about myself, I would be: More exotic and less normal.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Too involved with things to be cool.
My most irrational act: Hitchhiking from Providence, R.I., to New York City at 3 in the morning in the middle of a blizzard with four football players when I was in college.
If I weren`t an actress: I`d be finger-painting in an asylum somewhere.
