- Acting is her first love though she became very interested in Photography in her teens and has been developing on both sides of the camera ever since.
- Her east village apartment in New York City appears in The Interpreter (2005) as the apartment of the lead character played by Nicole Kidman. It was during the early location scout of her apartment that she met the production and talked with the Cinematographer about her photography and asked for a chance to work on the film.
- She's always asked where she's from because of her unique accent.
- Speaks French and Italian; she's currently learning Hindi.
- She worked on organic farms in the north and south of France.
- She studies voice, tabla, and dance and is very passionate about Indian Music (classical, devotional, and folk).
- She has been a film presenter and French interpreter for the Tribeca Film Festival since 2005.
- Prior to attending New York University to study Film, she considered entering a monastery to study Buddhism and made a pilgrimage to Tibet before her last year of high school, trekking through the Nepal Himalayas with her sister and a Sherpa.
- Her older sister Lori is a painter and artist's rep who, as co-founder of Higgins Harte International Galleries, represents the fine art of great talents, such as legendary actors Anthony Quinn and Tony Curtis.
- Attended Northern Valley Regional Highschool in Old Tappan, New Jersey where she was at the same time president of the student council, co-captain of the debate team, co-editor of the literary magazine, assistant director for the all-school musicals, and recipient of their Outstanding Filmmaker award.
- On the last day of filming The Interpreter (2005) at the United Nations she played the part of a French Delegate in the General Assembly and can be seen for a split second in the film's alternate ending on the DVD.
- She auditioned for the famous Scuola di Teatro del Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 2005, performing an excerpt she selected from Dario Fo's comedic monologue "La Mamma Fricchettona". Director Luca Ronconi complimented her performance in Italian but did not accept her into the school. Instead, she returned to New York City and developed her audition piece, along with 2 other monologues by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, into her first one-woman show "La Fricchettona" off-off Broadway 2006 (reviewed with much acclaim in the Italian-American journal 'America Oggi').
- Is of Irish-Scandinavian descent.
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