Moved to New York after her parents were expelled from their native
Poland for her father's involvement with Amnesty International and the
then subversive Solidarity movement.
Attended Carnegie Mellon University; majored in drama, where she first met fellow student and future husband Patrick Wilson. They re-met years later, and married.
Fluent in Polish, semi-fluent in Spanish and French.
Gave birth to her second child with husband Patrick Wilson, a boy named Kassian McCarrell Wilson, on August 9th, 2009.