Known for four projects that Stephen King wrote and her husband Mick Garris directed: She played Susan Stern in The Stand, the infamous "woman in the off-limits room 217" in King's own miniseries of The Shining, Laurie in Sleepwalkers (the vampire movie with all the cats), and in addition to Lizzie Caplan and Kathy Bates, she is also one of the actresses who played Nurse Annie Wilkes (Riding the Bullet).