My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.