Of Irish and Cuban extraction.
Graduated college in 1969.
Nominated for Tony award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for role in "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?", May 2002.
Mother of 'Roxy DiCamillo' .
Introduced daughter Roxy DiCamillo to boyfriend Seth Binzer (Shifty Shellshock, Crazy Town) on New Years Eve 2000.
Has 5 children from first marriage to Ed Ruehl (4 sons, 1 daughter)
Was on set of "Riders On The Storm" for daughter Roxy DiCamillo as a mentor.
Won Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Lost in Yonkers." She was nominated two other times: in 1995 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "The Shadow Box," and in 2002 as Best Actress (Play) for Edward Albee' s "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?"
Won a 2005 Obie Award for her performance in "Woman Before A Glass."
She and Irene Worth both won Tony Awards for their roles in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers." She and Worth reprise their respective roles in Simon's film version, Lost in Yonkers (1993).
She and her husband have adopted a son, Jake Xavier Ruehl Geiser, born in May 1997.
One son, Christopher, given up for adoption when she was 28. Reunited in the late 90s when he was 21 and godfather to his half-brother Jake.
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