Alison Brie

Alison Brie

Brie in 2013
Born Alison Brie Schermerhorn
(1982-12-29) December 29, 1982
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Occupation Actress
Years active 2004–present

Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982),[1] known professionally as Alison Brie,[2] is an American actress. She portrayed Annie Edison in the NBC and Yahoo! sitcom Community, Trudy Campbell in the AMC's Mad Men and the voice of Diane Nguyen on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman. She starred in several films, such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015) and How to Be Single (2016).

Early life

Brie was born in Hollywood, California. Her mother, Joanne (née Brenner), works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit child care agency,[3] and her father, (Charles) Terry Schermerhorn[4] (a.k.a. Terry Charles), is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter.[5][4] She has a sister, Lauren.[4][5]

Brie's mother is Jewish[6] and her father has Dutch, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Brie has stated that, while being raised by her divorced parents, she occasionally attended a "Christian-Hindu hybrid church", the Self-Realization Fellowship, with her father. However, her mother "would always make sure we knew we were Jewish".[7][8][6]

Brie began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California.[9][5] She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's in theater in 2005.[10] For a time, she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.[11][5] Brie worked as a clown at birthday parties and performed in theater in California.[12]

Career

One of Brie's first television roles was as Nina, a novice hairdresser, on Hannah Montana. She went on to star in the web series My Alibi and was chosen for the role of Trudy Campbell in Mad Men. From 2009 to 2015, she portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC (and later Yahoo! Screen) sitcom Community.

In April 2010, Brie co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show![13] and appeared in a short segment on Web Soup.[14] She appeared in the 2010 film Montana Amazon.[15] Brie made Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99[16] and appeared at number 49 in their 2011 list.[17] She was voted the 56th sexiest woman in the world by FHM readers in 2013.[18] She was also voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the world by Askmen readers in 2014.[19]

Brie starred in several major film roles, including Sidney Prescott's assistant in the 2011 horror film Scream 4,[20] and appeared in the 2012 comedy film The Five-Year Engagement. She voiced Unikitty in The Lego Movie (2014), and voiced a character in an episode of the long-running adult animation series American Dad!, which aired during their 10th season.[21][22] In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudekis in Leslye Headland's romantic comedy film Sleeping with Other People and played Will Ferrell's character's fiancée in Get Hard.[23] In 2016, Brie starred as Lucy in the romantic comedy film How to Be Single.

In June 2014, Brie joined the cast of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, which debuted on August 22. Over the first two seasons, she has voiced a variety of characters, including main character Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman.[24][25]

Personal life

Brie has been dating actor Dave Franco since 2012.[26] On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged.[27][26]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Stolen Poem Alice Short film
2007 Dickie Smalls: From Shame to Fame Mya
2007 Born Mary Elizabeth
2008 Salvation, Texas Lisa Salter Short film
2008 Parasomnia Darcy
2008 Coverup, TheThe Coverup Grace
2008 Buddy 'n' Andy Michelle Short film
2009 Us One Night Alyson Short film
2010 Home Front, TheThe Home Front Hannah Short film
2010 Raspberry Magic Ms. Bradlee
2010 Montana Amazon Ella Dunderhead
2011 Scream 4 Rebecca Walters
2012 Save the Date Beth
2012 Five-Year Engagement, TheThe Five-Year Engagement Suzie Barnes-Eilhauer
2013 Kings of Summer, TheThe Kings of Summer Heather Toy
2014 Lego Movie, TheThe Lego Movie Unikitty Voice role
2014 Search Party Elizabeth
2015 Sleeping with Other People Lainey
2015 Get Hard Alissa
2015 No Stranger Than Love Lucy Sherrington
2016 Joshy Rachel
2016 How to Be Single Lucy
2016 Get a Job Tanya
2016 The Masterpiece Amber In post-production
2016 Headhunter's Calling, TheThe Headhunter's Calling Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Hannah Montana Nina Episode: "It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To"
2007–2015 Mad Men Gertrude "Trudy" Campbell 36 episodes
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2009)
2008 Deadliest Lesson, TheThe Deadliest Lesson Amber Television film
2009–2015 Community Annie Edison 110 episodes
Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Supporting Actress (2012)
2011 Robot Chicken Martha Stewart / vampire lifeguard (voices) Episode: "The Godfather of the Bride 2"
2012 NTSF:SD:SUV:: Joanie Episode: "Sabbath-tage"
2012 American Dad! Lindsay (voice) Episode: "Adventures in Hayleysitting"
2013 High School USA! Miss Temple (voice) Episode: "Choices"
2013 Axe Cop Beautiful Girly Bobs (voice) Episode: "The Dumb List"
2014 Comedy Bang! Bang! Herself Episode: "Alison Brie Wears a Black Mesh Top & Mini-Skirt"
2014–present BoJack Horseman Diane Nguyen / Vincent Adultman / Joelle Clarke / various voices 24 episodes
2016 Teachers Lauren Lark Episode: "Pilot"; also executive producer
2016 Doctor Thorne Miss Martha Dunstable 3 episodes
Web series
Year Title Role Notes
2008 My Alibi Rebecca Fuller 14 episodes
2009 Hot Sluts Amber[28] 5 episodes
2012 Sketchy Meg Episode: "You Got Retweeted"
2013 ArScheerio Paul Show, TheThe ArScheerio Paul Show Madonna Episode: "Madonna & Rosie O'Donnell"
Video games
Year Title Voice role
2015 Lego Dimensions Unikitty
2016 Marvel Avengers Academy Black Widow[29]

References

  1. ↑ California Birth Index, 1905–95, Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. accessed at FamilyTreeLegends.com.
  2. ↑ Alison, Brie (May 8, 2013). Episode 386 - Alison Brie. WTFPod.com. Interview with Marc Maron. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Staff Reports, California Municipal Finance Authority
  4. 1 2 3 "Schermerhorn, Brandenstein Wed In Summer Ceremony". HeraldChronicle.com. Lakeway Publishers, Inc.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Kozlowski, Carl (August 1, 2009). "A Shooting star Alison Brie is one of the busiest young actresses in Hollywood...". Pasadena Weekly. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Banin, Jana (May 9, 2013). "Alison Brie on her very Jewish mother". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ "DP/30 Emmywatch: Community/Mad Men, actor Alison Brie". Emmywatch.
  8. ↑ "Alison Brie and Donald Glover of ‘Community’". PopMatters.com. 2009-11-17. Archived from the original on 20 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
  9. ↑ Andelman, Bob (2009-11-12). "From Mad Men’s Trudy to Community’s Annie, actor Alison Brie is a hit". True/Slant. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  10. ↑ Lipp, Deborah (2008-10-12). "Exclusive Alison Brie Interview, part 1". Basket of Kisses. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  11. ↑ "Alison Brie on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". YouTube. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
  12. ↑ Price, Erik (2009-09-11). "Alison Brie: Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman". Esquire. Archived from the original on 15 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  13. ↑ "Alison Brie on Attack of the Show [2011-04-14]". YouTube. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  14. ↑ "Web Soup: Alison Brie Laughs at Dead People". Bing. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  15. ↑ Bartyzel, Monika (2008-04-07). "Casting Bites, Part Two: Some Brie and Strik". Cinematical. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
  16. ↑ "2010 Hot 100". Maxim. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
  17. ↑ "2011 Hot 100". Maxim. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  18. ↑ "Alison Brie". FHM.
  19. ↑ "Emilia Clarke Voted Most Desirable Woman". Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  20. ↑ Miska, Brad (July 1, 2010). "'Community' Chick and 'Donnie Darko' Mom Join 'Scream' Mystery". Bloody-Disgusting LLC. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  21. ↑ "Kim Kardashian ‘American Dad’: Reality Star to Play Alien on Comedy". Variety. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  22. ↑ Hibberd, James. "Kim Kardashian to play alien on 'American Dad' | Inside TV | EW.com". Insidetv.ew.com. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  23. ↑ Fleming Jr, Mike (17 March 2014). "‘Community’s Alison Brie Joins Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart Comedy ‘Get Hard’". deadline.com. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  24. ↑ Knight, James. "‘Mad Men’ Alison Brie New Netflix Show Bojack with ‘Breaking Bad’ Aaron Paul After ‘Community’ Cancellation [TRAILER]". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  25. ↑ Strecker, Erin (6 April 2014). "'BoJack Horseman': New Netflix comedy features voices of Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, more". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  26. 1 2 Malkin, Marc (24 August 2015). "Exclusive! Alison Brie and Dave Franco Engaged—See the Ring Now". E! Online. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  27. ↑ Adams, Char (August 25, 2015). "Alison Brie and Dave Franco Are Engaged!". People.com. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
  28. ↑ "Alison Brie falls in with the wrongest crowd possible". Comedy Central.
  29. ↑ Eric Goldman (4 February 2016). "Marvel Avengers Academy Launches with an All-Star Cast". IGN. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

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