Trivia

Met husband Tony Shalhoub in 1988 when the two performed together on Broadway in "The Heidi Chronicles". They wed in 1992. The couple has two adopted daughters: Josie Lynn (born 1988), who was adopted by Adams before her marriage and whom Shalhoub later adopted), and Sophie (born 1993), adopted by the couple after they married.

Reportedly turned down offer to be one of the original Charlie's Angels (1976).

On stage at age 6 and on television at age 16.

New York City in "Lend Me a Tenor" with husband Tony Shalhoub at Music Box Theatre through August 2010 (May 2010)

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1978" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 30.

Her first feature film role was in 1967 starring in a New York City-based musical film named All the Other Outs in Free, directed by Ray Russell, which was never released.

Sister of actress Lynne Adams. Sister-in-law of, among others, Michael Shalhoub and Susan Shalhoub Larkin.

She is of English, and a smaller amount of German, ancestry. Many of her family lines trace back to Colonial New England, particularly Massachusetts and Connecticut. She is said to be related to U.S. President John Adams, though she is not his direct descendant.

Her appendix was removed. (March 2004)