As of 2017, she worked as casting director in 15 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Exorcist (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Network (1976) Annie Hall (1977), The Turning Point (1977), Julia (1977), Terms of Endearment (1983), The Killing Fields (1984), The Mission (1986), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Working Girl (1988), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Mississippi Burning (1988), Schindler's List (1993) and Midnight in Paris (2011). Of those, Annie Hall (1977), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Schindler's List (1993) are winners in the category.

Cast every film directed by Woody Allen since first collaborating on Love and Death (1975) right through Café Society (2016).

In two occasions, she was the casting director of three of the five movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: in 1977 with Annie Hall (1977), The Turning Point (1977) and Julia (1977); and 1988 with Working Girl (1988), Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Mississippi Burning (1988).

Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Her son, Samuel Taylor Walsh, received a law degree and a masters in public administration from Harvard in 2006. He married Elisabeth Sara Jacobs on May 28, 2006 at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Mass.