- Studied mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris at age 18.
- The song "Never Let Her Slip Away", written and recorded by Andrew Gold, was about Newman. The two were a couple during the late 1970s when the ballad hit #5 on the UK charts.
- Began studying improvisational comedy at age 15.
- Has a twin brother named Paul Newman.
- An alumna - and one of the founders - of The Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles.
- Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a son, Spike Einbinder, in August 1991. Child's father is her husband, Chad Einbinder.
- Gave birth to her second child at age 43, a daughter, Hannah Einbinder, on 21 May 1995. Child's father is her husband, Chad Einbinder.
- She attended Beverly Hills High School and California Institute of the Arts.
- She is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.
- In the late 1960s, she was a member of the Richmond Shepard Mime Troup.
- Is portrayed by Maureen Ross Neilson in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something (2002).
- Sister of writer/producer Tracy Newman.
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