She attended the Francis W. Parker School and the University of Southern California. She manufactured her film debut inside 1978, in Brian De Palma's horror movie The Fury. Her more memorable roles include a Replicant Pris in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy Splash, the name part around Fred Schepisi's movie Roxanne (a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac), and a giantess Nancy Archer in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, for which she was also co-producer. Her virtually all recent easily-known role is that of the 1-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill: Volume I and Kill Bill: Volume II.

Inside her private life she is better known for her relationships with John F. Kennedy, Jr and Jackson Browne.

At the age of 45 Daryl is however recognised when one of a virtually all attractive actresses inside Hollywood & witharound late 2004 she was a featured model in Playboy in a telltale placed.