Warner was born in Manhattan on February 9, 1965. Her mother, Naomi, is a literary agent, an independent marketing consultant, and a licensing director. Her father, the late Neil Warner, was a jingle composer, a pianist, an arranger, and a former jazz bandleader. Her paternal grandfather was Hollywood composer Jack Shilkret, the brother of composer Nathaniel Shilkret. 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 operaGuiding Light. Warner earned a degree in theater arts from Brown University in 1987. After her graduation, Warner moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a waitress while auditioning for acting.
Career
Warner appeared in two episodes of ; "Booby Trap" in 1989 and "Transfigurations" in 1990. Warner's most famous roles include her 1991 breakout co-starring performance with Michael J. Fox in Doc Hollywood, then 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. She played the role of Danni Lipton in the TV seriesFamily Law, and the recurring characterMegan 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 filmStick It. Other screen credits include a guest appearance on an episode of House. She starred in the 2008 Hallmark Channel movie Our First Christmas, 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 showTrue 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.
Personal life
In June 1995, Warner married writer-director Jonathan Prince. They have a son named Jackson, born in 1997. They are now divorced.
