| Joined The Danny Kaye Show as a professional dancer when she was 16. |
| First acting gig was a guest-starring role on a 1970 episode of Gunsmoke. |
| Was cast as Clark Kent's high school sweetheart Lana Lang in 1983's Superman III opposite Christopher Reeve; and then as adoptive mother Martha Kent in the 2001 CW series Smallville. |
| Played country singer Tammy Wynette in a 1981 TV movie entitled Stand by Your Man. |
| At age 3, started taking dance lessons at her mother's dance school in Houston. |
| Made feature-film debut as a scheming beauty-pageant contestant in the 1975 comedy Smile. |
| Landed guest-starring roles with husband Michael McKean in a number of TV series, including a 1999 episode of Boy Meets World and a 2000 episode of Law & Order. |