American actress, writer, and producer ( born 1982 )

Alison Brie Schermerhorn ( have a bun in the oven December 29, 1982 ) is an american actress, writer, and manufacturer. She had her breakthrough for portraying Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men ( 2007–2015 ), which won her a screen Actors Guild Award in 2009. She gained further prominence for her function as Annie Edison in the drollery series Community ( 2009–2015 ). Her celebrated work besides includes Diane Nguyen in the animate comedy series BoJack Horseman ( 2014–2020 ) and Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW ( 2017–2019 ). For the latter, Brie received two Golden Globe Award nominations. In addition to her television receiver work, Brie has besides starred in films such as Scream 4 ( 2011 ), The Five-Year Engagement ( 2012 ), The Lego Movie ( 2014 ), Get Hard ( 2015 ), Sleeping with Other People ( 2015 ), How to Be Single ( 2016 ), The Little Hours ( 2017 ), The Disaster Artist ( 2017 ), The Post ( 2017 ), Promising Young Woman ( 2020 ), Horse Girl ( 2020 ), and The Rental ( 2020 ).

early on life [edit ]

Alison Brie Schermerhorn was born in Hollywood, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her beget, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her beget, Joanne Brenner, works at Para los Niños ( “ For the Children ” ), a non-profit childcare representation. [ 5 ] She has an older sister named Lauren. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brie ‘s beget is jewish. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Her don was raised Catholic, and has Dutch, English, and scottish lineage. [ 10 ] While being raised by her divorce parents, she occasionally attended a “ christian – Hindu hybrid church ” called the Self-Realization Fellowship with her father. however, her mother “ would always make certain we knew we were jewish. ” [ 6 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Brie graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2001. [ 13 ] Brie began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California. [ 4 ] [ 14 ] She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor ‘s degree in theater in 2005. [ 15 ] She besides studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. [ 4 ] [ 16 ] She former worked as a clown at birthday parties and performed in theater in California. [ 17 ]

career [edit ]

Brie ‘s first television receiver role came in 2006, as Nina, a novitiate hairdresser, on the Disney Channel situation comedy Hannah Montana. She received further recognition as Trudy Campbell in the AMC time period drama serial Mad Men ( 2007–2015 ). She went on to star in the vane series My Alibi, which aired from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2015, she portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC / Yahoo ! View sitcom Community. For her performance, she earned applaud and was nominated for the Critics ‘ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. In April 2010, Brie co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show! [ 18 ] and appeared in a segment on Web Soup. [ 19 ] She appeared in the 2010 comedy film Montana Amazon. [ 20 ] Brie made Maxim magazine ‘s 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 [ 21 ] and appeared at numeral 49 in their 2011 list. [ 22 ] She was voted the 57th Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2013. [ 23 ] She was voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the universe by AskMen readers in 2014. [ 24 ] Brie starred in respective major movie roles, including as Rebecca Walters, Sidney Prescott ‘s adjunct, in the slasher repugnance movie Scream 4 ( 2011 ), [ 25 ] and Suzie Barnes in the amatory drollery movie The Five-Year Engagement ( 2012 ). She voiced Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy film The Lego Movie ( 2014 ), and voiced a character in an episode of the animize series American Dad!, which aired during their one-eighth season. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] In June 2014, Brie joined the cast of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, which debuted on August 22. She has since voiced a variety of characters, including main quality Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Brie besides appeared on Lip Sync Battle and south korean won against Will Arnett with performances of “ Shoop “ by Salt-N-Pepa and “ Bang Bang “ by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj. [ 30 ] In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudeikis in Leslye Headland ‘s romanticist comedy film Sleeping with Other People, and played Will Ferrell ‘s character ‘s fiancée in the drollery film Get Hard. [ 31 ] In 2016, Brie starred as Lucy in the quixotic comedy film How to Be Single. In 2017, she co-starred in several films, including the historical drollery The Little Hours, the biographic comedy-drama The Disaster Artist, and the historical drama The Post.

In 2017, Brie began her leading character as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix comedy-drama series GLOW, inspired by the 1980s female professional wrestle forwarding Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling ; [ 32 ] the serial began streaming on June 23, 2017. Brie noted that since appearing in GLOW and receiving critical praise for the function, she has become more focus on taking meaningful roles. [ 33 ] For her performance, she earned multiple nominations for the Critics ‘ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] In 2018, she co-starred in the music video recording for Beck ‘s “ Colors ”. [ 37 ] In 2019, she reprised her voice function as Princess Unikitty in the inspire comedy sequel film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and provided an english dub for the japanese animate quixotic fantasy film Weathering with You. In 2020, Brie starred in the applaud drama thriller film Promising Young Woman, directed by Emerald Fennell. [ 38 ] besides that class, she wrote, produced and starred as Sarah in the Netflix drama film Horse Girl, which was directed by Jeff Baena. [ 39 ] Brie then starred opposition Dan Stevens in the horror film The Rental, which was directed by her husband Dave Franco. [ 40 ] Brie played Sloane in the amatory comedy film Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall. [ 41 ] In June 2021, it was announced that Brie had been added as a fame guest to the fifth season of the animize situation comedy Rick and Morty. [ 42 ]

personal life [edit ]

Brie began dating Dave Franco in 2012 after meeting him at a 2011 Mardi Gras party in New Orleans. [ 43 ] On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] They married on March 13, 2017. [ 45 ] In an interview with Larry King in 2017, she revealed she did not want to have children. [ 46 ]

Filmography [edit ]

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Year Title Role Notes
2008–2009 My Alibi Rebecca Fuller 18 episodes
2009 Hot Sluts Amber 5 episodes[50]
2012 Sketchy Meg Episode: “You Got Retweeted”
2013 Madonna Episode: “Madonna & Rosie O’Donnell”
2020 The Cast of Community Reunites for Table Read Annie Edison Online Fundraiser

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Year Title Artist Role Ref.
2018 “Colors” Beck Herself [53]

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