Attended the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2003.
Daughter of Irish war hero-turned producer Emmet Dalton.
Divorced from TV executive assistant director James H. Brown after 24 years, she later married an engineer, Rod F. Simenz. Brown was once a UCLA college basketball player and the former couple met at a college party.
Has five children: Tara Anne (born 1953), Victoria Patricia (1955), James E. (1957), Richard P. (1959) and Adrian E. (1963).
Schooled at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Dublin before the family moved to London, England.
Was asked by her father to appear in his Irish film This Other Eden (1959), which included members of the Abbey Players.