Paget Brewster
Paget Valerie Brewster (/ˈpædʒɪt/ PAJ-it;[1] born March 10, 1969[2]) is an American actress. She first received recognition for her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of the NBC sitcom Friends. Her breakthrough role came as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. She was a regular cast member on the series from 2006 to 2012, then made two guest appearances before returning as a regular in 2016.
Paget Brewster
Actress
1990–present
Her other roles include voicing Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., portraying Debra Chambers and Frankie Dart in the fifth and sixth seasons of Community, respectively, and voicing Judy Ken Sebben / Birdgirl in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and Birdgirl. Brewster has also played Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered and voiced Della Duck in the 2017 series of DuckTales, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.
Early life[edit]
Brewster was born March 10, 1969,[3] in Concord, Massachusetts.[4] Both her mother, Hathaway Brewster (née Tew), and father, Galen Brewster, worked as school administrators at Middlesex School.[5][6]
Brewster grew up in Massachusetts and moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design.[7] During her first year, she made her acting debut and eventually dropped out of design school[8] to pursue her acting career.[9] In the mid-1990s, Brewster moved to San Francisco and enrolled in acting classes.
Personal life[edit]
On the March 30, 2006, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Brewster revealed that she had received a handwritten note indicating Hugh Hefner would like her to pose for Playboy. She seriously considered the offer, but even though she said that she admired Playboy more than magazines such as Maxim and FHM, and her parents gave her their blessing, she eventually turned it down.[18]
She has volunteered as an actress with the Los Angeles Young Storytellers Program.[19]
On March 17, 2013, Brewster became engaged to Steve Damstra, a member of the bands Folded Light and Whirlwind Heat.[20][21] Brewster and Damstra married on November 28, 2014, in Los Angeles, in a ceremony officiated by Matthew Gray Gubler, their close friend and Brewster's Criminal Minds co-star.[22][23] As of 2016, the couple resides in Los Angeles.[24]