

“I call my casting category ‘evil vixen,’ whether it's comedy or drama. Her development deal led to multiple episode arcs on the crime drama Hunter and legal series LA Law and, eventually, a dream audition for the HBO sitcom The Larry Sanders Show.

But, probably, if I'm honest, I wanted to be Meryl Streep-but I’m not Meryl Streep.” And I knew I loved doing comedy based on theater stuff I'd done. I was the only one of my class that went to LA,” she said. “I was literally like, ‘Okay!’ because I had $65,000 in graduate debt to be an actor. Soon after graduating, she was performing in a staging of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with the ACT when an NBC television scout offered her a development deal with the network. After getting her bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Arlington, she went on to study at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
