She fractured a bone in her foot and jumped into a dumpster infested
with real rats on the set of The Game (1997).
Her mother is a nuclear scientist and her father is a gynecologist.
Studied philosophy and economics at the University of Victoria before becoming the first Canadian to be accepted into the highly-regarded Australian National Institute of Art, graduating in 1988.
When not working, she divides her time between Vancouver and Los
Angeles.