Trivia

Graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Vassar College.

Living in Los Angeles, California with husband and children. She still writes screenplays for Hollywood but is relatively inactive in the public scene. (October 2004)

Of all the main cast members of The Goonies, she is the only one that does not appear in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'The Goonies R Good Enough'.

Founded Independent Women Artists (IWA) with Bonnie Dickenson. (1996)

Her Goonies character, Andy, is the subject of the song "Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate", by Lostprophets from the album "Liberation Transmission".

She is of Russian Jewish and Dutch Jewish descent.