- Former daughter-in-law of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
- Raised in Japan.
- Accomplished jazz singer.
- Mountain climber in her spare time.
- Former sister-in-law of Lucie Arnaz.
- In seeing that the on-screen father/daughter relationship didn't click, she left her role on Matlock (1986), at the end of the first season in 1987.
- In a relationship with Patrick Duffy (November 2020].
- Daughter of Marshelline "Marshie" (Patton), a Broadway actress, and Raymond Charles Arthur Purl, an actor. Her paternal grandmother, Beatrice Saville, co-founded the Actors' Equity Association.
- Attended high school at Wykeham Rise School for Girls in the Arts in Washington, Connecticut. After attending Finch College, she went to England to study under Marguerite Beale.
- Mother of son, Lucius Carey. Father is former husband Alexander Cary.
- Is of European Jewish descent.
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