Named Best Modern Actress in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, substantially beating out runner-up Michelle Pfeiffer. [September 1999]
Learned to play the violin, by practicing 6 hours a day for 8 weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999).
Has a fear of helicopters.
Received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [16 September 1998]
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.
Ranked #24 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Married with 4 children: Henry, Mary Willa, Grace, Louisa
Educated at Yale University. Studied Drama.
Graduated from Vassar College in 1971.
Once engaged to actor John Cazale
Graduated from Bernards High School.
Before making it big, she was a waitress at The Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.
Was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.
She left her just-claimed Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on the back of a toilet during the 1979 festivities.
Replaced Madonna for the lead in Music of the Heart (1999).
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