Older sister of Ben Wattenberg.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree of the Arts from New York University.
She has three children including Jonathan Schull (a teacher at Haverford College), daughters Deborah, who is a law student, and Elinor Schull, who gave birth to her first grandchild, Henry, in 1996.
Studied acting in Dublin, Ireland, under the Stanislavsky method.