- While in the 7th grade, she landed her first professional role as Young Mary/Janey in the musical version of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
- While maintaining an A average all through high school, she has been able to juggle 5 dance classes a week, singing lessons, student/teacher at a local regional theater and still do commercials, CD ROMS, musical recordings, student films and many theatrical productions, including the title role in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, Lucy in THE GOODBYE GIRL, Dorothy in THE WIZARD OF OZ, etc.
- While she still plans to continue to perform, she hopes to eventually become a theater therapist, working with disabled children.
- Sigler has been casting a wide net in her career - she has co-authored a new book, Wise Girl, is about to make her Broadway debut in Beauty and the Beast, just dyed her hair blonde for a new film role, and recently finished filming THE SOPRANOS' fourth season. (August 2002)
- Nickname: J-Lynn
- Has appeared in several off-Broadway productions including Annie and Anne Frank.
- Appeared in an episode of Oprah where she discussed how she almost became anorexic after her boyfriend broke up with her.
- Voted Class Thespian in high school.
- Originally, HBO wanted to replace Sigler with a blonde after the first four episodes of THE SOPRANOS, but it was deemed to expensive to re-shoot all of those scenes.
- Ethnicity: Jewish-American and Greek.
- MTV premiered the video for her song Cry Baby on 'Total Request Live'.
- Her father is president of an amateur baseball league.
- Sang The Star-Spangled Banner at the inaugural game--specifically a Major League Soccer game between the New England Revolution and the Dallas Burn--at CMGI Field in Foxboro, Massachusetts (May 11, 2002)
- Sang The Oh Canada and The Star Spangled Banner, before game six of the first round of the NHL playoffs in 2002. (New York Islanders vs. Toronto Maple Leafs)
Quotes- On her musical sound: "I'm half-Cuban -- my mother was born in Cuba and came here as a teenager -- so it's got a lot of Latin influence to it. It's pretty poppish. It's kind of more on the J-Lo side of things."
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