Warner was born to Naomi, an independent marketing consultant, and Neil Warner, a composer and pianist. Her paternal grandfather, Jack Shilkret, and paternal great uncle, Nathaniel Shilkret, were composers. Warner attended the Dalton School at age twelve. There she met an agent who advised Warner to consider acting. Shortly thereafter, Warner landed a role on the soap opera Guiding Light. Warner studied theater arts at Brown University. After her graduation, Warner moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a waitress while auditioning for acting roles. She is Jewish.
Warner performed in conservatory theater and summer stock theater and appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Booby Trap" in 1989 and "Transfigurations" in 1990.[citation needed] She also made commercials for products, including Pert Plus.
Her breakout role was in the 1991 film Doc Hollywood, co-starring with Michael J. Fox, followed by her co-starring role with Billy Crystal in 1992's Mr. Saturday Night. She was in Indian Summer in 1993, The Puppet Masters, based on Robert A Heinlein's novel of the same name in 1994, and Tommy Boy in 1995.[citation needed] Also in 1995, she portrayed Amy Sherman in Pride and Joy.: 853  She played the role of Danni Lipton in the TV series Family Law, and the recurring character Megan O'Hara in Nip/Tuck. In 2005, Warner began starring as the wife to Howie Mandel in his short-lived hidden camera/situation comedy Hidden Howie: The Private Life of a Public Nuisance and later appeared in the 2006 film Stick It. Other credits include a guest appearance on an episode of House. She starred in the 2008 Hallmark Channel movie Our First Christmas,[citation needed] where she plays a mother trying to navigate the difficult waters of combining two families after the deaths of her own and her new husband's spouses. In 2009, she played Rose Pinchbinder in the children's TV show True Jackson, VP in the episode "Keeping Tabs". In 2012, she guest starred in a season seven episode of Dexter, "Chemistry", as the sister of Hannah McKay's dead husband.

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