Occupation: Actress.
Birthday: May 16, 1959.
Birthplace: Phoenix.
Current home: Monterey Bay, Calif.
Marital status: Married for seven years.
Children: I have five, ages 8, 6, 4, 3 and 1.
Car: A big Chevy truck; it`s the only thing that will hold us.
Working on: A TV movie, ”Crossing to Freedom,” with Peter O`Toole. It airs today on CBS-TV.
The last good movie I saw was: ”Drugstore Cowboy.”
The book I`ve been recommending lately is: ”The Chalice and the Blade,” by Riane Eisler, about power between the sexes.
Favorite performer: Josephine Baker.
Prized possessions: Paintings by my kids that I had framed.
Every New Year`s I resolve: To learn a new instrument. I`ve learned the recorder and the dulcimer but not the violin.
I hope I never have to: See Monterey Bay get drilled for oil.
The worst part of my job is: Feeling like you`re in a race.
I want to teach my children: Right now I`d just like to teach them to quit whacking one another.
My fantasy is: I`m in New Zealand working my piece of land, and I`ve just mailed my parents and my siblings airplane tickets to come and join me for a week.
The worst advice my mother ever gave me was: ”There`s no difference between Miracle Whip and mayonnaise.”
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Over the top. I was always singing, dancing, acting, directing and insisting that they watch me.
My most irrational act: It was at the party at the end of my 8th-grade home-ec cooking class. We invited some teachers, and in the middle of it, I shut the doors and turned out the lights. It might not sound like much, but it got me suspended.
The best time of my life: The summer of 1987, when we lived in a tepee while we were building our cabin.
Behind my back my friends say: ”If she`d only make a little effort on her appearance.”
Major accomplishment: My kids seem to like their lives.
My most humbling experience: Watching my sister give birth.
When people first meet me, they think: ”She tries hard.”
Three words that best describe me: Loud, whiny mom.
