Trivia

She is a licensed pilot and gourmet cook.

As she loves to travel, she and her former The Bold and the Beautiful (1987) co-star Ian Buchanan once went around the world and visited Egypt, Russia and China.

She was a registered Republican until the President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's administration in 2000.

Has two Labrador retrievers.

Earned a BFA in theater from Stephens College in Missouri and did graduate work in theater arts at Arizona State University

Was supposed to be made a semi-regular guest on Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). However, Flannery was not added to the cast but instead played Adm. Nelson's secretary in one episode and his sister in another.

She adopted a daughter, Blaise Flannery, in 1987.

Resides in Santa Barbara, California.

Was once a self-proclaimed "X-Phile" (only for the first few seasons).

According to the Chinese calendar, she was born in the Year of the Rabbit.