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I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since.

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out here to Los Angeles and got on a show.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.