Alison Brie
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.
Alison Brie
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[edit]
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]