I was born in Westchester County, N.Y. About 30 minutes from N.Y.C.
I Had a pretty normal childhood. I grew up with my Mom calling me Sanda Panda. I had a panda bear collection you wouldn't believe!
All my life I thought I'd follow in my Dad's footsteps & be a mathematician. I couldn't believe how easy Math was for me. Neither could anyone else : ). I completed Calculus in high school. Anyway, unfortunately, when I was 19 my Dad died unexpectedly & my thoughts of the whole math thing went out the window.
I started hanging out a bit in NYC & met up with a real nice girl named Nancy who was a model. She said her bathing suit company needed 1 more model & I should come in & try out. I went in & to my surprise was hired. From that I started meeting all kinds of people & I started hanging out in the city a lot more.
Next, I was doing a music video for Def Leppard called "Hysteria". That led me to be a Club MTV dancer for like 4 years. That was my life! Club MTV with Downtown Julie Brown.
During that my friend Nancy's husband was a Chippendale dancer who had a poster out. I thought it would be so cool to have a poster out. So I shot one & it became really popular. I was named "America's #1 selling Poster girl" .
I wound up doing the talk show circuit of all the TV shows like Montel, Joan Rivers, Geraldo & Howard Stern. One thing led to another & I kept doing modeling stuff here & there & I found myself spending more & more time in L.A. I decided to move here in 93'.
Soon after I met Garry Marshall who was doing a movie called "Exit to Eden" I remember going in to read thinking "I don't want to be a typical model/actress. I don't want to act. Crazy stuff! I got the movie! WoW! Next thing I knew I was sitting on a plane in first class on our way to Hawaii to shoot next to David Bowie (who's wife Iman was in the film) and Dan Aykroyd & Rosie O'Donnell. I really enjoyed being on the set & learning all that I did.
Throughout my modeling career I was a mute! When you model, you don't really have much input on things. I liked doing movies & found I really liked the whole art of the film industry. I came back home, got my SAG card & started auditioning & got a few great roles.
Beginners luck! I had a great agent & went out a lot.
My next big break was getting "Under Seige 2" with Steven Seagal. That was quite an adventure to work on. I get shot & again, learned so much on the set from such great people.
During the release of "Under Seige 2" I did a Celebrity layout for Playboy magazine which featured me on the cover! Talk about a dream come true! Seven months later I got another Playboy cover where I posed as a Bond girl with Leslie Nielsen.
I thought, "I really like this stuff!" I have worked on such great films like L.A. Confidential, Batman & Robin, Princess Diaries 1 & 2, Tomcats, Phoenix (with Ray Liotta, God I love him!), Raising Helen and lots of others. I did some great TV shows like E.R., Just Shoot Me, King of Queens, Son of the Beach, Married with Children to name some.
Through work, you meet new people & I always think, Work breeds Work. My highlights have included being a guest on the Jay Leno Show several times & Conan O'Brien and traveling & meeting & working with people like Julie Andrews & Arnold Schwarzenegger (he froze me in Batman & Robin).
It has been a terrific ride & I have been out traveling promoting my newest flick "Keeping Up With The Steins" with Jeremy Piven, Daryl Hannah & Daryl Sabara (the kid from Spy kids! he is awesome!) Doris Roberts, Jami Gertz, I consider myself really fortunate to have accomplished what I have in this lifetime. It's fascinating how life works when you trust in the Universe!
I'm not sure what my long term goals are because I kinda never knew where I was going to be today. Life has been full of surprises!
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