Birthday: Feb. 24.
Birthplace: St. Thomas, Ontario.
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.
Car: A 1991 black Volvo sedan.
Working on: Poltergeist: The Legacy 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.
I stay home to watch: Larry King Live and ER.
Favorite pig-out food: Vanilla ice cream.
Personal hero: The doctor who took care of me when I was a child with rheumatic fever.
People always think I’m: On a very good day, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Nobody knows I’m: A poet.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Reserved. I wasn’t interested in being a cheerleader and getting drunk with the football team.
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 and staying with Bedouins. It was an amazing time.
Three words that best describe me: Soulful, human, woman.
