✦Sits on the directors' board of Helena's Montana Shakespeare Company.
✦Was born on the same date and month as Marcia Cross and Sarah Jessica Parker were.
✦Has played the same role of a family mother whose death in the pilot of the series sets the events of the show in motion in both TV series of "Everwood" and "Desperate Housewives."
✦Owns a studio in Los Angeles for her yoga class.
✦Has appeared in the TV series of "Ally McBeal" and "Everwood" in which her "Desperate Housewives" co-star Marcia Cross also starred in before the ABC series came to the surface, but never was in the same episodes with the actress.