Birthday: Feb. 24.
Birthplace: St.Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
Occupation: Actress.
Current home: We have a farm in East Texas, near Mineola.
Marital status: Married for nine years to Steven Smith.
Children: A son, Mackenzie, 7.
Cars: A 1991 black Volvo sedan, a 1986 blue Chevy pickup, a 1995 red Ford Explorer and a funky old beige 1975 Chevy.
Working on: “Poltergeist: The Legacy,” which airs on Showtime starting April 21, and I’ve got some movies coming out: “Tremors II,” “The Craft” and “The Amateurs.”
The last good movie I saw: “Dead Man Walking.”
Favorite pigout food: Vanilla ice cream.
Favorite performer: Marcello Mastroianni.
Prized possession: The ring I wear on my right hand. My husband and I found it in Venice the morning after we conceived our son. It’s two hands holding an egg-shaped sapphire. We didn’t buy it then. We didn’t have the money. But he went back seven months later and got it for me.
Personal hero: The doctor who took care of me when I was a child with rheumatic fever. He got me grown up without a scar on my heart. The only scars I have there are ones I’ve caused myself.
I wish I could stop: Hunger and homelessness.
I’m better than anyone else when it comes to: Listening from the heart.
I’d give anything to meet: Jack Nicholson.
I want to teach my son: That if one man is hungry, none of us can be full; that the possibilities are infinite; and that change is possible.
My most irrational act: I was in Paris at the airport, ready to go home, and instead, I left my luggage in storage and bought a one-way ticket to Tel Aviv, where I knew no one. I wound up spending three weeks hitchhiking, scuba diving in the Red Sea, staying with Bedouins. It was an amazing time.
If I wasn’t an actress, I’d be: Investigating the healing arts.
If I’ve learned one thing in life it’s: Suit up and show up.
Major accomplishment: I’m the same with everyone.
Three words that best describe me: Soulful, human and woman.
