I was born in London to an American mother and British father, hence the funny accent. My British grandparents were actors Sheila Raynor (“A Clockwork Orange”, “The Omen”, etc.) and Keith Pyott (“Chimes at Midnight “ with Orson Welles, BBC’s “Dr. Who”, “The Avengers”, etc. )

When I was four, my parents moved to Paris where, like that heroine of kidlit, Madeline - with a blue smock but minus the straw hat - I attended French schools run by nuns (sheep’s brains were sometimes served for lunch) and lived to tell the tale.

After seven years in Paris, and brief spells in Ireland and the American South, we landed in the then-British colony of Hong Kong . There, I obtained A -levels in French, German and English. I came back to the States to earn a BA from Hollins University, and moved to New York for a stint as a bi-lingual secretary at the French Embassy (ask me about the statue in the lobby of that building and the time I literally backed into Jackie Kennedy Onassis).

But the ancestral call of the Theatre (best pronounced Theatah) could no longer be ignored . After working with a little French theatre troupe, and taking classes at Playwrights Horizons, I enrolled full-time at Circle in the Square Theatre School (which on a rough day we dubbed “Circus in Despair” ). At Circle, I was privileged to study with unforgettable master teachers Therese Hayden, Jacqueline Brookes, Alan Langdon, Andrea Haring , Leigh Dillon, K.C. Ligon, Mina and Moni Yakim, B.H. Barry and John Stix, and later independently with Ken Schatz.

My work since then has included audiobook narration for Audible. com, and voice-over commercials, and over a dozen New York theatre , tv and film credits. My most personally meaningful accomplishments to date include “Kitchen Think” - my production/translation of “Cuisine et Dependances” - which was approved by its Oscar-nominated French authors-actors-filmmakers Agnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri ,-and which ran with the help of the Culture Project (my translation won a Beaumarchais grant and has been performed around the world); my documentary film entitled (and co-directed and produced with Simon Kerr) “Swallow It: Our Culture’s Struggle With Eating and Body Image” (available on Vimeo); my narration of George MacDonald’s classic fairytale-for-all-ages , “The Princess and the Goblin” (available at Audible.com); and my cabaret “‘Chanson Populaire”, a tribute to French Popular music at Don’t Tell Mama in NYC , directed by Ada Maris (and coming soon to a venue near you!).

Member SAGAFTRA and AEA. Resume available upon request.