Biography

Her mother is actress Dixie Carter and she has one sister, Mary Dixie Carter, who is a screenwriter.

Stepdaughter of Hal Holbrook.

Younger stepsister of David Holbrook.

She has three elder half-siblings from her father's first marriage: Jon, Wendy, and Ellen. She and her sister Mary Dixie are from her father's second marriage to Dixie Carter.

She attended Harvard University (as did her sister Mary Dixie Carter) and graduated in 1991. She studied acting at RADA in London and studied writing in the Master of Professional Writing program at USC, graduating in 2007. She is an actress and a playwright.