[2] Dorn attended Hollywood High School and it was there that she decided to pursue a career as a math teacher.
Dorn appeared in two films as an actress (including a nude "Archbishop" in the 1976 satire TunnelVision) before moving behind the camera.
[2][3] In 1986, she started her own sound company, Sonic Kitchen, but with time, got more and more disenchanted and distracted with the daily business grind.
In addition to her credited editing on Scott's films, Dorn worked on the 2003 DVD releases of Alien[broken anchor] (the "Director's Cut").
[5] In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild listed Memento as the fourteenth best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership.