<P> Rocha was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, graduating from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1993 . </P> <P> Rocha's career began on stage in the August 1993 revival of the Jane Bowles play In the Summer House at the Vivian Beaumont Theater . Since then she has been in multiple Broadway and Off - Broadway productions including Noises Off and Nicky Silver's comedy The Altruists where she created the role of Cybil . </P> <P> Her on - screen debut was in the 1996 cinematic adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, as Mercy Lewis . She stood out when she played the Atlantic American flight attendant who argued with Ben Stiller's character at the airport in the 2000 comedy Meet the Parents, a role she reprised in the sequel Meet the Fockers . She also had a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Anya's vengeance demon friend, Halfrek, and as William the Bloody's love interest, Cecily . Rocha played Stonewall Jackson's wife, Anna in Ron Maxwell's Gods and Generals, an epic drama about the first two years of the American Civil War . Other films include The Object of My Affection, Autumn in New York, White Oleander, When Billie Beat Bobby, and Ready? OK! . </P> <P> She has appeared on the Will & Grace episode "Strangers With Candice", as a straight woman who flirts with Will . In spring 2006, Rocha began acting in the short - lived NBC sitcom Teachers . She guest - starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Cindy Marino, an aggressive TV reporter . Also, she appeared on an episode of Bones as a victim's mother . Rocha has also played the character of a fourth - year resident surgeon, Dr. Sydney Heron, at Seattle Grace Hospital in the ABC TV series Grey's Anatomy . </P>

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