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| Born | Cheryl Ruth Hines (1965-09-21)September 21, 1965 (age 60) Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | Tallahassee State College University of Central Florida (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, comedian |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Television | Curb Your Enthusiasm Suburgatory Son of Zorn I Can See Your Voice |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Kennedy family (by marriage) |
Cheryl Ruth Hines (born September 21, 1965)[1] is an American actress and comedian. She portrayed Cheryl David onHBO'sCurb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), earning twoPrimetime Emmy Award nominations. She also starred as Dallas Royce on theABC sitcomSuburgatory (2011–2014) and made her directorial debut with the 2009 filmSerious Moonlight.
She is married toRobert F. Kennedy Jr., the 26th and currentU.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Hines was born inMiami Beach, Florida, to James and Rosemary Hines.[2] She spent much of her childhood inTallahassee,[3] where she was actively involved in the Young Actors Theatre. Despite financial hardships—she reportedly did not have her own bed until after high school[4]—she pursued her education atLively Technical Center andTallahassee State College before earning a degree in radio and television production from theUniversity of Central Florida in 1990.[5]
Hines began her acting career by performing improvisational comedy atThe Groundlings Theater. Her fellow students includedLisa Kudrow.[3] Hines made guest appearances on television shows such asSwamp Thing andUnsolved Mysteries. She also appeared on an episode ofThe Dating Game in 1996. She was not picked on the episode.
Hines received anEmmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work onCurb Your Enthusiasm in 2003 and 2006.[6] She has said that "UntilCurb, I'd done small roles, really small roles. They wanted to cast an unknown actress. It worked in my favor that I hadn't done anything. It changed my life."[7]
Hines appeared inRV withRobin Williams,[8]Waitress withKeri Russell, and the 2008 mockumentaryThe Grand, a spoof of the World Series of Poker. Her 2009directorial debutSerious Moonlight starsMeg Ryan with a script by the lateAdrienne Shelly, Hines' director and co-star inWaitress.
Hines played Jane in the 2009ABC sitcomIn the Motherhood. It is a loose adaptation of the web series. The series was dropped due to low ratings after five of its planned seven episodes were aired. During the 2009–2010 season ofBrothers & Sisters, Hines guest-starred as Kitty Walker McCallister's campaign manager, Buffy. In July 2010, Hines was announced to be joining the cast of theNickelodeon film based onThe Fairly OddParents,A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! as a human disguise of Wanda, Timmy's fairy godmother.[9]
Hines served as executive producer for the 2010 reality seriesSchool Pride, which follows the renovation of a different school each week.[10] Hines starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcomSuburgatory.[11] The series ended in 2014 after three seasons.[12] She appeared inWe Need Help, a web series airing onYahoo! Screen. On January 29, 2014, Hines received the 2,516th star on theHollywood Walk of Fame.[13]
Hines is a panelist on a singing game show,I Can See Your Voice.[14]
Hines married Paul Young, founder of the management firm Principato-Young, on December 30, 2002. They had a daughter, Catherine Rose Young, on March 8, 2004. After nearly eight years of marriage, Hines and Young filed for divorce on July 20, 2010.[15]
Hines has been actively involved in advocacy work, particularly withUnited Cerebral Palsy (UCP). Her involvement began after a nephew was born withcerebral palsy, prompting her to seek resources and support from the organization.[16] Over time, she became a vocal advocate and now serves on UCP's board of trustees.[17] In 2015, Hines and her family won $25,000 for UCP while competing onCelebrity Family Feud.[18]
Hines was raisedRoman Catholic.[19]
Hines began datingRobert F. Kennedy Jr. in December 2011 after being introduced by herCurb Your Enthusiasm co-star,Larry David.[20] The couple announced their engagement in April 2014[21] and married on August 2, 2014, at theKennedy Compound onCape Cod.[22]In June 2019, Hines accompanied her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a trip to Samoa where they were special guests at the country's 57th Independence Celebration in Mulinu'u. While there is no public record of Hines attending Kennedy's meetings with local anti-vaccine influencers, her presence added a degree of Hollywood visibility to the trip.[23]
Hines publicly supported Kennedy during his 2024 presidential campaign and subsequent confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. She appeared at his Senate confirmation hearing alongside other supporters of his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) platform.[24][25]
In a profile on her in the New York Times in 2023 she is quoted as saying “I see both sides of the vaccine situation,” she said. “There’s one side that feels scared if they don’t get the vaccine, and there’s the side that feels scared if they do get the vaccine, because they’re not sure if the vaccine is safe. And I understand that.”[26] In an October 2025 interview, she said that vaccines are "an important part of our healthcare."[27]
Following a child's death amid a measles outbreak in Texas in early 2025, Kennedy's cousinJack Schlossberg publicly criticized Hines in a video message, urging her to call the parents of the child and apologize for her husband's anti-vaccine stance. Schlossberg said; "Almost every single case of measles is in someone who's not vaccinated. I think you're the perfect person to say sorry."[28]
Both Hines and Kennedy attended the memorial service for conservative activistCharlie Kirk in September 2025, saying that the dangerous political climate frightens her "more than anything."[29]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | Cheap Curry and Calculus | Sheila | Short film |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly | Catering Manager | |
| 2005 | Cake | Roxanne | |
| Herbie: Fully Loaded | Sally | ||
| Our Very Own | Sally Crowder | ||
| 2006 | Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas | Professor Adams | |
| RV | Jamie Munro | ||
| Keeping Up with the Steins | Casey Nudelman | ||
| 2007 | Waitress | Becky | |
| Goodnight Vagina | Meg March | Short film | |
| The Grand | Lainie Schwartzman | ||
| 2008 | Hollywood Residential | Herself | |
| Henry Poole Is Here | Meg Wyatt | ||
| Bart Got a Room | Beth Stein | ||
| Space Chimps | Luna (voice) | ||
| 2009 | All in the Bunker | Eva Braun (voice) | Animated short |
| Labor Pains | Lisa DePardo | ||
| The Ugly Truth | Georgia | ||
| 2010 | The Legend of Secret Pass | Nitika (voice) | |
| Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back | Luna (voice) | ||
| 2014 | Life After Beth | Judy Orfman | |
| Think Like a Man 2 | Andrea | ||
| 2015 | The Benefactor | Mia | |
| Christmas Eve | Dawn | Also known asStuck | |
| 2016 | Nine Lives | Madison Camden | |
| 2017 | Wilson | Polly | |
| A Bad Moms Christmas | Sandy | ||
| 2021 | Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans | Momblank (voice) | |
| 2022 | About Fate | Judy | |
| 2024 | Popular Theory | Tammy Page |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1993 | Swamp Thing | Louise Brenner | Episode: "Heart of the Mantis" |
| 1997 | Unsolved Mysteries | Sharon Berman (Ashley's mother) | Episode: "9.18" - YouTube/FlimRise Episode: "9.15" |
| 1998 | The Wayans Bros. | Helen | Episode: "Six Degrees of Marlon" |
| Suddenly Susan | Debbie | Episode: "Poetry in Notion" | |
| 1999 | Marla | Episode: "The Cheerleaders" | |
| Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm | Cheryl David | TV movie (series pilot) | |
| 2000 | Friends | Woman #2 | Episode: "The One with Rachel's Sister" |
| 2000–2024 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Cheryl David | Main role (seasons 1–7, 9–12; guest season 8) |
| 2002 | So Little Time | Barbara Morrison | Episode: "The Job" |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | Lauren Williamson | Episode: "Annoying Kid" | |
| 2003 | Reno 911! | Trailer Park Lady | Episode: "Terrorist Training: Part 1" |
| A Tale of Two Wives | Rose Goodman | TV movie | |
| Wanda at Large | Dr. Linda | Episode: "Did Wanda Say a Four Letter Word?" | |
| 2004–2005 | Father of the Pride | Kate (voice) | 14 episodes |
| 2006 | Scrubs | Paige Cox | Episode: "My New God" |
| 2007 | Jack's Big Music Show | Sudsy Bubblestein | Episode: "Mel's Bath Day" |
| 2009 | Hannah Montana | Catherine York | Episode: "What I Don't Like About You" |
| In the Motherhood | Jane | 7 episodes | |
| 2010 | Wright vs. Wrong | Keri Daly | TV movie |
| The Super Hero Squad Show | Stardust (voice) | 2 episodes | |
| Brothers & Sisters | Buffy McCreary | 3 episodes | |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Kristen Lerner | Episode: "Too Much Information" |
| A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! | Wanda | TV movie | |
| 2011–2014 | Suburgatory | Dallas Royce | Main role; 56 episodes |
| 2013 | Hollywood Game Night | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | The Crazy Ones | Beth Minker | Episode: "Zach Mitzvah" |
| 2015 | The Middle | Dr. Sommer Samuelson | Episode: "The Convention" |
| 2015–2016 | TripTank | Various voices | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | Young & Hungry | Kathy Kaminski | Episode: "Young & Parents" |
| 2016–2018 | Mike Tyson Mysteries | Virgilia / Jillian Davis (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | Son of Zorn | Edie Bennett | Main role; 13 episodes |
| 2017 | Pickle and Peanut | Susan (voice) | Episode: "Wet Wedding" |
| 2017–2018 | Nobodies | Herself | 2 episodes |
| 2017–2019 | Funny You Should Ask | Herself | 35 episodes |
| 2018 | Fresh Off the Boat | Fay | Episode: "Big Baby" |
| Hell's Kitchen | Herself | Blue Team's VIP guest diner; Episode: "Hell Freezes Over" | |
| 2018–2019 | 3Below: Tales of Arcadia | Momblank (voice) | 16 episodes |
| This Close | Stella | 6 episodes | |
| 2019 | The Good Fight | Brenda Decarlo | Episode: "The One Where the Sun Comes Out" |
| Drunk History | Lady Bird Johnson | Episode: "Fame" | |
| 2020 | Make It Work! | Herself | Television special |
| Stumptown | Ginger Lloyd | Episode: "Dirty Dexy Money" | |
| The Conners | Dawn | Episode: "Mud Turtles, A Good Steak and One Man in a Tub" | |
| The Masked Singer | Guest panelist | Episode: "The Group B Finals - The Mask Chance Saloon" | |
| 2020–present | I Can See Your Voice | Herself | Regular panelist |
| 2021 | The Masked Dancer | Guest panelist | |
| 2022 | The Flight Attendant | Dot Karlson | Main role (season 2) |
| Lego Masters | Herself | 3 episodes | |
| 2023 | Fantasy Island | Jessica Warren | Episode: "Tara and Jessica's High School Reunion / Cat Lady" |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2006–2007 | Campus Ladies | 3 episodes |
| 2008 | Hollywood Residential | TV series |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2006 | Campus Ladies | Episode: "No Means No" |
| 2009 | Serious Moonlight | Feature film debut |
| 2020 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Episode: "Artificial Fruit" |
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