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Alison Brie

Alison Brie

American actress (born 1982)

Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress. Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award. She gained recognition for her role as Annie Edison in the sitcom Community (2009–2015) and voicing Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020). For playing Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW (2017–2019), she received nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Critics' Choice Awards.

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In addition to her television work, Brie has starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014) and its sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), How to Be Single (2016), The Post (2017), The Little Hours (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Happiest Season (2020). She also wrote, produced, and starred in the films Horse Girl (2020), Spin Me Round (2022), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023).

Early life

Alison Brie Schermerhorn was born on December 29, 1982,[1][2] in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.[3][4] Her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter.[5][6] Her mother, Joanne Brenner, works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit childcare agency.[7] She has an older sister named Lauren.[5][6] Brie's mother is Jewish.[8][9][10][11] Her father was raised Catholic, and has Dutch, English and Scottish ancestry.[12][13] While being raised by her divorced parents, she occasionally attended a "Christian-Hindu hybrid church" called the Self-Realization Fellowship with her father. She graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2001.[14] The summer between high school and college, she worked as a clown at children's birthday parties.[15][16]

She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in theater in 2005.[17] Her studies included a year at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.[6][18]

Career

Brie began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California.[6][19] Her first television role came in 2006 as Nina, a novice hairdresser, on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. She received further recognition as Trudy Campbell in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), which won her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.[20] She went on to star in the web series My Alibi, which aired from 2008 to 2009.

Brie at the premiere of Public Enemies in 2009.

From 2009 to 2015, she portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC/Yahoo! View sitcom Community, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and won an Entertainment Weekly Award from two nominations.[21][22][23] In April 2010, she co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show![24] (and again in March 2011) and appeared in a segment on Web Soup.[25] She appeared in the 2010 comedy film Montana Amazon.[26] Brie made Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99[27] and appeared at number 49 in their 2011 list.[28] She was voted the 57th Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2013.[29] She was voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the world by AskMen readers in 2014.[30]

Brie starred in several major film roles, including as Rebecca Walters, Sidney Prescott's assistant, in the slasher horror film Scream 4 (2011),[31] and Suzie Barnes in the romantic comedy film 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 animated series American Dad!, which aired during their eighth season.[32][33]

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 character Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman.[34][35] She appeared on Lip Sync Battle and won against Will Arnett with performances of "Shoop" by Salt-N-Pepa and "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj.[36]

In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudeikis in Leslye Headland's romantic comedy film Sleeping with Other People, and played Will Ferrell's character's fiancée in the comedy film Get Hard.[37] In 2016, she starred as Lucy in the romantic comedy film How to Be Single, and as Martha Dunstable in Julian Fellowes' adaptation of Anthony Trollope's Dr. Thorne for television.[38]

Brie (right) with fellow GLOW actress Betty Gilpin in 2018.

In 2017, she co-starred in several films, including the historical comedy The Little Hours, the biographical comedy-drama The Disaster Artist, and the historical drama The Post.[39][40] From 2017 to 2019, she starred as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix comedy-drama series GLOW, which was inspired by the 1980s female professional wrestling promotion Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.[41] Brie noted that since appearing in GLOW and receiving critical praise for it, she has become more focused on taking "meaningful" roles.[42] 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.[43][44][45]

In 2018, she co-starred in the music video for Beck's "Colors".[46] In 2019, she reprised her voice role as Princess Unikitty in the animated comedy sequel film The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and provided an English dub for the Japanese animated romantic fantasy film Weathering with You.[47]

In 2020, Brie starred in the acclaimed drama thriller film Promising Young Woman, directed by Emerald Fennell.[48] Also that year, she wrote, produced and starred as Sarah in the Netflix drama film Horse Girl, which was directed by Jeff Baena.[49] Brie then starred opposite Dan Stevens in the horror film The Rental, which was directed by her husband Dave Franco.[50] Brie played Sloane in the romantic comedy film Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall.[51] In 2021, she starred as a celebrity guest voice in the fifth season of the animated sitcom Rick and Morty.[52]

In 2022, Brie starred in and co-wrote the dark comedy film Spin Me Round with frequent collaborator and director Jeff Baena; it was released in select theatres by IFC Films and streamed on AMC+ .[53] She also starred in an episode of the Apple TV+ anthology TV series ROAR, "The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder". The series is based on the eponymous book by Cecelia Ahern.[54]

In 2022, it was also announced that Brie would reprise her role as Annie in a Community film.[55][56][57]

In 2023, Brie wrote and starred in the romantic comedy film Somebody I Used to Know with her husband Dave Franco, who also co-wrote and directed it.[58] It was released on Amazon Prime Video on February 10 and became the #1 film on the platform in the USA and worldwide.[59] In 2023, Brie also voiced the character of Aftershock in the Disney Channel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.[60]

In February 2023, it was announced that Brie was cast in Peacock's limited TV series adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel Apples Never Fall with Jake Lacy, Annette Bening and Sam Neill.[61]

Personal life

Brie with her husband Dave Franco in 2023.

Brie began dating Dave Franco in 2012 after meeting him at a 2011 Mardi Gras party in New Orleans.[62] On August 25, 2015, it was reported that they were engaged.[62][63] They married on March 13, 2017.[64] In an interview with Larry King in 2017, she said that she did not want to have children.[16]

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