She is the only daughter of actor Gregory Peck and his second wife Veronique Passani. As an actress, Peck was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for The Portrait, in which she played the daughter of her father"s character. Peck produced A Conversation with Gregory Peck, about her father, which premiered as a Special Selection in the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and aired on TCM and Public Broadcasting Service American Masters.
She played the leading role in Torn Apart, and appeared in My Best Friend Is a Vampire. Peck directed and produced Shut Up & Sing, about the backlash against the Dixie Chicks for opposing the Iraq War. The film was nominated for the Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking in 2014.
Peck"s company, "Rocket Girl Productions", produces independent feature films and documentaries.
She directed and produced the documentary short Justice Foreign All, an examination of capital punishment, which was awarded the Silver Gavel Award. She was an associate producer on Defending Our Daughters, a non-fiction film about women's human rights for Lifetime Television, which was awarded the Voices of Courage Award by the Women's Refugee Committee. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, won a Special Jury Prize at the Chicago Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Sydney, Aspen, and Woodstock Film Festivals, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Academy Awards.
