Is fluent in French and Mandarin Chinese; spent eight months during college living in Beijing.
At Harvard in 1985, was one of the founding members of a coed a cappella group called the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones.
Made her acting debut on a 1990 episode of Law & Order, which starred her father, Paul Sorvino. Despite having her scenes cut, she was still able to secure her Screen Actors Guild card.