A Canadian-American writer, photographer, and actress, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She holds a BA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She began acting as an amateur at the age of eight, and after graduation, she moved to New York, where she worked in cinema, theater and television before marrying the father of her two children, Canadian musician David Usher in 1998, and then moving after that to Montreal, Canada. Some of her works are Arrival (2016) and Coda (2019).