Biography

Incorporated her real-life pregnancy into her Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) character, Detective Alexandra Eames, by stating that she was being a surrogate mother for her infertile sister.

September 2011) Obsessed fan Charles Nagel, 37, was sentenced by a New York judge to five years probation for stalking and harassing Kathryn Erbe and her family.

Became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's ensemble in Chicago, which her ex-husband Terry Kinney co-founded.

Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts undergraduate drama program.

Daughter, Maeve Elsbeth Erbe Kinney, born 26 October 1995.

After 'Oz,' I've learned how to check out and not let that stuff get in.

Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There's the role you're playing on the show, and there's also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans - not to mention your own life as a mom.

I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.

'Yosemite' opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There's a whole world of fearless young theater makers here who put shows together on a shoestring budget and with gigantic hearts.

My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.