Lead character in television series VR.5 (1995) was originally written for a male.
Twin sister of Gregory Singer, who was born just three minutes after Lori.
Her son, Jacques Rio Emery (born in March of 1991), is named after Lori's father, as is Lori herself (her middle name is "Jacqueline").
Her father was born in Przemysl, Poland, to a Polish Jewish family. Her mother has English, some Scottish, and distant German, ancestry.
A 1980s "Esquire" feature on her began with an excerpt from the William Butler Yeats poem, "For Anne Gregory": "That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone, And not your yellow hair".