Name	Audrey Wasilewski
Birth date	June 26, 1967
Birth place	Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Actress/Voice actress
Years active	1994–present
Website	http://www.audreywasilewski.com/}}

Audrey Wasilewski (born June 26, 1967) is an American actress and voice actress.

Life and career

She was born Audrey Wasilewski on June 26, 1967, in Pennsylvania. Her first role came in the 1994 Japanese animated film Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko, where she was one of the additional voices dubbed in English. She is also known for her television roles.

She has made guest appearances in TV series, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, George & Leo, Total Security, Saved by the Bell, Party of Five, Diagnosis Murder, State of Grace, The Nightmare Room, Providence, Charmed, Cold Case, ER, General Hospital, Push, The West Wing, Wonderfalls, The Bernie Mac Show, Boston Legal, Family Guy, The Mighty B, Monk and many more.

Audrey Wasilewski is a series regular on the Drama series Big Love as Pam Martin and on Mad Men as Anita Olson Respola.

She voiced Misty and Tuck on the Nickelodeon animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, Big Fat Baby on Histeria! in 2003 on the Cartoon Network animated series and also voiced Laura in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. She voices a veterinarian named Dr. Glove in Back at the Barnyard. In 2007, she voiced Garfield's love interest Arlene in the animated direct-to-video film Garfield Gets Real, and reprised the character on The Garfield Show, the following year. She is also the voice of Bessie in Random! Cartoons and she also voiced Terk in a Tarzan video game.

In 2008, Wasilewski held a supporting role in the feature film, Clear Lake, WI, starring Michael Madsen.

References

External links

Official website

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Caption	Pressly in January 2008
Birthname	Jaime Elizabeth Pressly
Birthdate	July 30, 1977
Birthplace	Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.
Spouse
Occupation	Actress, model
Yearsactive	1997–present

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning one, for a Golden Globe Award and for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Joe Dirt, and I Love You, Man.

Early life

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of James List Pressly and Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor. She has two siblings: sister Jessica and brother James Liston Pressly, Jr. She has spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing.

By age 14, she was the spokeswoman for her modeling agency "International Cover Model Search" and had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.

Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through the process of a divorce. Pressly subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15 so she could attend a modeling job in Japan; neither one of her parents could attend with her, so she had to be emancipated to go on her own.

Career

Pressly starred as "Violet" in the 1997 film . In 1998 she starred as "Nikki" on the short-lived TV series "Push", and also played a recurring role as the undead assassin Mika in the TV action series . From 1999 to 2001, Pressly starred as "Audrey" on the drama series Jack and Jill.

Pressly starred in the independent film Poor White Trash, playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake. She subsequently appeared in a number of films, including Not Another Teen Movie (playing Priscilla, a high school cheerleader) and Torque, as a crazed, motorcycle-riding criminal.

In 2001, she was made the new spokesmodel for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and its fragrance Lucky You. In 2002, she was ranked #8 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". In 2003, she launched a lingerie line, J'Aime, which later became a full sleepwear and ready-to-wear line. In 2006, Maxim magazine named her #34 on its annual list; she is also featured in its gallery. Pressly posed nude for the March 1998 and February 2004 issues of Playboy. She also appeared nude in the May 2006 issue of Allure.

Pressly guest starred in episodes of several TV shows. In an episode of the WB series Charmed, played Mylie, a mermaid trying to find love; (Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe, later guest starred on My Name is Earl.) Other series in which Pressly guest starred were The Twilight Zone, Fastlane, Becker. Night Man and Silk Stalkings. She also appeared in an episode of the prank series Punk'd.

]] In 2005, Pressly was cast in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, as Joy Turner. In 2007 she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show. She has also been nominated for several other awards.

Pressly sang "Fever" in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls. She has also appeared in a number of music videos, including "The Space Between" by Dave Matthews Band, "Girls of Summer" by Aerosmith and the Marilyn Manson cover of "Tainted Love". On May 31, 2006, she hosted the first annual VH1 Rock Honors.

Pressly was a producer as well as a star in the 2005 movie Death to the Supermodels. She hosted the October 7, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live. Prior to this, she guest starred on an episode of MADtv from season eleven, where she played Hillary Clinton in a parody of My Name Is Earl, "My Name Is Dubya", in which George W. Bush (Frank Caliendo) makes a list of all the bad things he's done in the past and rectifies them one by one. She is featured in the 2008 video game Saints Row 2 in which she plays lead role Jessica, a lieutenant for the fictitious Brotherhood gang.

On December 3, 2009, it was announced that Jaime will guest-star on an upcoming episode of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. She will play a possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey (Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price). She reprised her role in the 5th season premiere.

She is in the new music video for "Pray For You" by Jaron And The Long Road To Love.

In 2010 she became the spokesperson for the "AXE Detailer Will Clean Your Dirty Balls" ad campaign for AXE Shower Gel. The ad employs double entendres, talking to men, but showing different types of sports equipment/balls.

On May 16th 2011, it was announced that Jaime will appear in a Fox comedy slated to premiere next season.]]).

Personal life

Friends for nine years since 1996, she started dating DJ Eric Calvo (aka DJ Eric Cubeechee) in 2004. After Pressly became pregnant, the two became engaged in October 2006. Pressly gave birth on May 11, 2007 at 7:31 a.m. in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to their first child Dezi James Calvo. In a February 2007 interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Pressly said she wants the child to be bilingual (English/Spanish) to reflect Calvo's Cuban heritage. Pressly told People magazine the name is part of a running joke, as Cuban-American Calvo does a Desi Arnaz impersonation, calling Pressly "Luuucy" when he comes home at night In November 2008 the couple announced their separation.

Pressly said in a 2006 interview with Esquire magazine that she almost purchased a ticket for a flight on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but decided not to take the flight because she felt it left too early in the morning.

In July 2009, Pressly became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh. They married on September 26, 2009 at the Dick Clark Estate. Guests, including Pressly's two-year-old son Dezi James, attended the ceremony on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Pressly was arrested in Santa Monica, California on the night of January 5, 2011 for suspicion of driving under the influence. She is facing two misdemeanor charges in connection with the incident.

On January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences. In her divorce petition, Pressly listed the couple's date of separation as December 27, 2010, nine days before her DUI arrest.

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Film |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1997 | | Violet |Straight-to-video |- | 1997 | The Journey: Absolution | Allison |- | 1997 | Against the Law | Sally | |- | 1998 | Can't Hardly Wait | Beth | Credited as "Jamie Pressly" |- | 1998 | | Mika | |- | 1998 | Ringmaster | Angel | |- | 1999 | Inferno | Dottie Matthews | |- | 2000 | 100 Girls | Cynthia | |- | 2000 | Poor White Trash | Sandy Lake | |- | 2001 | Not Another Teen Movie | Priscilla |Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Line ("Oh, it's already been broughten!") |- | 2001 | Ticker | Claire Manning | |- | 2001 | Joe Dirt | Jill | |- | 2001 | Tomcats | Tricia | |- | 2002 | Demon Island | Tina | |- | 2004 | Torque | China | |- | 2005 | Death to the Supermodels | Tiffany Courtney |Straight-to-video |- | 2006 | | Tina Armstrong | |- | 2008 | Saints Row 2 | Jessica | Voice |- | 2008 | Horton Hears a Who! | Mrs. Quilligan | Voice |- | 2009 | I Love You, Man | Denise | |- | 2010 | The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure | Lola | |- | 2010 | 6 Month Rule | Claire | |}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Television |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 2002 |Charmed | Mylie | Episode "A Witch's Tail: Part 1" |- | 2003 | Becker | Grace | Episode "Sister Spoils the Turkey" |- | 2004 | The Karate Dog | Ashley Wilkenson | TV movie |- | 2005 | Entourage | Herself | Episode "My Maserati Does 185" |- | 2005–2009 | My Name Is Earl | Joy Turner | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy SeriesNominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy SeriesNominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series |- | 2010 | Rules of Engagement | Audrey's surrogate mother Pam Milton | Episodes "The Surrogate" and "Surro-gate" |- | 2010 | Beauty and the Briefcase | Kate | TV movie |- | 2011 | Raising Hope | Donna | Episode "Baby Monitor" |}

References

External links

Middletown Journal interview (March 2, 2006)

About.com interview (December 2001)

Dr. Drew interview

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