Background
Born Barbara Hallie Foote in Manhattan, the daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and writer and director Horton Foote, she was raised in Nyack, New York and New Hampshire. She began her stage career in 1986 when she was cast in the title role of her father"s off-Broadway play The Widow Claire, which also featured Matthew Broderick, Dan Butler, and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Career
She was appearing in the Hartford Stage production of her father"s theatrical adaptation of the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird when he died. In 2012, Foote appeared as Dolores and Mistress Crawford in the off-Broadway production of Harrison, Texas: Three Plays by Horton Foote with Primary Stages.
She then appeared as Pauline in the Primary Stages production of Him.
Foote"s film career has been limited to small roles in C.H.U.D., Walking to the Waterline, Friends with Money, and Paranormal Activity 3, among others Her television appearances include Miami Vice, Murder, She Wrote, and Law & Order and the television movies The Habitation of Dragons and Alone, both written by her father.
Foote is married to actor/screenwriter Devon Abner and is the sister of playwright/screenwriter Daisy Foote.