They called her performance in JoAnne Akalaitis's anthology of six sketches titled Help Wanted "horrifyingly funny".
[3] She has appeared in several other stage productions including Samuel Beckett's Cascando,[4] Cold Harbor (a play about Ulysses S. Grant),[5] and Mark Rappaport's Chain Letters and Imposters,[6][7] and more.
She played several of the female roles, with Michael Feingold of The Village Voice saying she was "the only cast member who actually seemed to become everyone she represented".
[16] She is best known to film and television audiences for portraying Jean Hill in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), Eleanor O'Connor in Oz, and Billie Lou Hatfield in Homicide: Life on the Street, Homicide: The Movie, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
[17][18] She has featured in many movies, including Stephen King's directorial debut Maximum Overdrive (1986) (as Wanda June), Jodie Foster's directorial debut Little Man Tate (1991), Working Girls (1986), Desperate Hours (1990), Julian Po (1997), and Al Pacino's independent movie Chinese Coffee (2000).