The redhead in the DirecWay/HughesNet commercials.
Daughter of Joanne Teresa Desmond, one of the first anchorwomen in the United States. She co-anchored both the Noon News and Eyewitness Evening News in Boston, interviewing such luminaries as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with an English Degree in 1992.