She is a famous actress and has been since maybe the late 90s or so I think?
By the way here's a great quote about her Husker roots: "In my family if you couldn’t talk Cornhusker football – that means knowing the Blackshirt defense, knowing the I-back formation – then you don’t get to have an opinion. When I first toured the Nebraska campus and I saw Turner Gill walk, I freaked out. That was like the biggest star-struck moment I’ve probably ever had in my life. But it's because I grew up in a household that always talked specifically Cornhusker football and Big 8 sports"