Offner was born in New York City in 1959. Her father was Mortimer Offner, a photographer, screenwriter, and television and theatre director Her mother, Pauline, was a photography editor and worked for the first medical photography journal Scope (journal).
She went to Sarah Lawrence College and New York University School Of The Arts, after graduated she worked extensively on and off Broadway and continues to work in Theatre, most recently in "ACT ONE" at Lincoln Center, and in film and Television on "Orange Is the new Black" and The Chris Rock Comedy Top Five.
He wrote many of Katharine Hepburn"s early films, but he was blacklisted. She appeared in Jonathan Kaplan films and television series such as Project X, Immediate Family, Unlawful Entry, Love Field, Emergency (season 5) Episode: Hazed and Confused, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 9) Episode: Snitch.
