Conroy was born March 15, 1953, in Monroe, Georgia, the daughter of Ossie Hardman (née Ray) and Vincent Paul Conroy. Her father, who was of Irish descent, was a business executive, and her mother als… See more

During the 1970s, she performed regularly with regional and touring theatrical companies (most notably The Acting Company), and appeared as Desdemona at the Delacorte Theatre in a production of Othello… See more

In 1980, she married Jonathan Furst; they divorced in the late 1980s, and Conroy subsequently married actor Jan Munroe in 1992. Conroy once had a car accident which damaged her right eye; although the cornea wa… See more