Favorite dish is biscuits and gravy.

Graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

Stepmother of her husband, Bobby Flay,'s daughter, Sophie, from a previous marriage.

Made her Broadway Debut in 1999 in Death of a Salesman as Miss Forsythe.

Attended the same high school, Highland High School in Dallas, as Angie Harmon. She was a sophomore when Ms. Harmon was a senior.

Graduated from the School of Speech (now School of Communication) at Northwestern University, where she majored in Theater and Hispanic Studies. [1996]

Married to chef Bobby Flay. He proposed to her while they were ice skating at Rockefeller Center on December 19, 2003.