Modeling Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at age 17, Featherstone became Canada's top model when her September
Flare magazine cover broke all previous records for sales. She quickly expanded upon her success and left for New York, where she signed with the illustrious Click models and later would be one of the first models signed to Next. She would travel the world in the 80s as a top fashion model.
Acting Featherstone is best known for playing the titular maid on the
Seinfeld episode called
The Maid,
Chloe in
Friends, and Robbie's fiancée Linda in
The Wedding Singer. Most recently, she played the role of Maggie on
Showtime's
Ray Donovan and Jame on
HBO's
Girls.
Writing Featherstone has created sitcoms for Sony, DreamWorks, and NBC television and has written nonfiction for
Time,
Jane,
Flare,
Huffington Post,
Dame, and
Zoomer. Her essay about childhood trauma, "God Said No", was published in the 2014 edition of
Gargoyle magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2021, she published the essay "Forgiveness" in
Dame magazine. An alumnus of
UCLA Extension Writer's Program "Personal Essay & Memoir," she is completing her memoir.
Directing In 2022, Featherstone began directing with her debut seven-minute film, ''L'Étranger.
As a director, she combines into a movement of aesthetic bliss her years of experience in fashion as a model, working with important photographers and magazines (such as Italian, French, and American Vogue
; Mademoiselle
; Seventeen
; Sassy
; Harper's Bazaar Italia; Grazia
; Harpers & Queens''; Albert Watson; Bruce Weber; & Irving Penn), her love of cinema and decades in the film industry, a refined sense of story as an oft published essayist, her passion for philosophy, and a love of creating safe spaces for collaboration.
Curating In 2011, she curated Fuck Pretty, a critically acclaimed photography exhibit at the Robert Berman Gallery - featuring emerging female photographers.
Music She recorded the song "Coattail Glide" with
Raymond Pettibon and the band The Niche Makers in 2011.
Producing In 2014, she was an adjunct lecturer at the UCLA Professional Producing Program. In 2022, she produced ''L'Étranger''. == Advocacy ==