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Occupation: Actress.

Birthday: Jan. 2, 1952.

Birthplace: Brooklyn, N.Y.

Current home: West Los Angeles.

Marital status: Married 11 years to actor Scott Paulin.

Child: Jenny Dare, 8.

Car: A red 1989 Saab convertible.

Working on: ”Homefront,” on ABC-TV

The last good movie I saw was: ”Howard`s End.”

I stay home to watch: ”I`ll Fly Away” and ”Northern Exposure.”

The book I`ve been reading is: ”Clockers,” a novel by Richard Price.

Favorite performer: Meryl Streep.

Favorite childhood memory: My mother taking me to see ”The Music Man”

in New York when I was 7.

Prized possession: A first edition of ”The Wizard of Oz.”

Personal heroes: Eric Sevareid, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King Jr.

I`ve never been able to: Do a cartwheel.

I`d give anything to meet: Bob Dylan. In my formative years, he was a moral guardian.

If I could do it over: I would have had children at an earlier age.

My fantasy is: I`m in southern France, very wealthy, very beautiful, very cultured, with my entire extended family around me.

The worst advice my mother ever gave me was: ”Don`t expect to be a success in acting.”

If I could change one thing about myself, I`d: Like to have more energy.

People who knew me in high school thought I was: Spacy. I would forget homework and what time school started.

My most irrational act: I deliberately drove my car into someone else`s car because they had insulted my driving.

Behind my back, my friends say: ”She has a lot of self-doubt.”

My most humbling experience: When I auditioned for Marvin Hamlisch for a TV special and realized I couldn`t sing a note.

When people first meet me, they think I`m: Sweet and with an earthy vulnerability.

The words that best describe me: Spiritual, shy and long-distance runner.