Missi Pyle | |
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 Pyle at the2012 ACE Eddie Awards inBeverly Hills, California | |
| Born | (1972-11-16)November 16, 1972 (age 53) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
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| Children | 1 |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Country |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Labels | Urban Prairie Records |
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Missi Pyle (born November 16, 1972)[1] is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in films includingGalaxy Quest (1999),Josie and the Pussycats (2001),Bringing Down the House (2003),Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004),Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005),Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008),The Artist (2011),Gone Girl (2014),Captain Fantastic (2016), andMa (2019).[2]
Pyle has also appeared in television series includingThe Mentalist (2010),Cleaners (2013–2014),Jennifer Falls (2014),Another Period (2015–2018),Bordertown (2016),The Soul Man (2016),Mom (2017),Impulse (2018–2019), andDirty John (2020).
As a singer, with actressShawnee Smith, she was half ofSmith & Pyle, acountry rock duo.
Pyle has guest starred on many television shows, includingHeroes,Mad About You,Boston Legal,Frasier,The Sarah Silverman Program, and2 Broke Girls. She started her film career with a minor role inAs Good as It Gets, starringHelen Hunt andJack Nicholson. After her breakout role inGalaxy Quest, she had supporting roles inBringing Down the House (for which she andQueen Latifah were nominated for anMTV Movie Award for Best Fight),Josie and the Pussycats,Home Alone 4,Exposed,Big Fish,Along Came Polly,Soul Plane,Stormbreaker, andCharlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was the female lead inBachelorMan. She appears inDodgeball: A True Underdog Story. She had a brief appearance in50 First Dates and starred inA Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song.
Pyle played Jake's elementary school teacher Ms. Pasternak onTwo and a Half Men. The role was recast in 2009 for undisclosed reasons; however. Pyle returned to the series in the same role in 2011 and again in the series finale "Of Course He's Dead" in 2015.
In 2008, Missi starred in the Broadway playBoeing-Boeing oppositeChristine Baranski,Mark Rylance,Greg Germann,Paige Davis andRebecca Gayheart. The play closed in January 2009.
Pyle was scheduled to ring the closing bell for the trading day at theNew York Stock Exchange on September 29, 2008, to promoteBoeing-Boeing, but backed out minutes before the close of trading so as not to associate herself with ending a calamitous day of financial turmoil which resulted in theDow Jones Industrial Average losing 778 points, the largest point loss ever in a session during the2008 financial crisis. She watched from the floor as an NYSE staffer pushed the button and gaveled the end of trading instead.[3]
Pyle was part of a country music group with actressShawnee Smith calledSmith & Pyle. The two actresses met while filming anABC comedy pilot titledTraveling in Packs. The band started after Smith invited Pyle to join her in attending theCoachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While stuck in traffic, Pyle talked about her dream to be a rock star and Smith agreed to form a band with her. Their first album, "It's OK to Be Happy", was released digitally throughiTunes andAmazon.com in July 2008. The debut album was recorded inJoshua Tree, California atRancho De La Luna and was produced byChris Goss. The two actresses have also become business partners and formed their own record label called Urban Prairie Records, under which "It's OK to be Happy" was released. According to an interview Smith did with pretty-scary.net in August 2008, a Smith & Pyle television or webisode series might be in the works. Smith also mentioned the idea of a series on Fangoria radio withDee Snider.[4] Currently there are three videos posted onYouTube that show the making of the record. They also have a 10-minute "making of" video onVimeo calledSmith & Pyle: Desert Sessions.[5][6]
Pyle married wildlife naturalistCasey Anderson on September 12, 2008. The wedding was country-western themed and took place inMontana. Wedding guests included bandmateShawnee Smith and comedianSteve Agee. Anderson's pet grizzly bear,Brutus, served as his best man in the ceremony.[7] Pyle and Anderson appeared in "Grizzly Dogs", the October 22, 2010, episode ofDog Whisperer, in which they sought the help ofCesar Millan to rehabilitate their dog.[8] Pyle confirmed their breakup in 2013.[citation needed] She has one daughter.[9][10]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1999 | Mad About You | Beautiful woman | Episode: "The Final Frontier: Part 2" |
| The Drew Carey Show | Stacey | Episode: "Drew's Reunion" | |
| Friends | Hillary | Episode: "The One with Ross's Teeth" | |
| 2000 | Battery Park | Suzanne | Episode: "Walter's Rib" |
| 2001 | Ally McBeal | Marcia Hooper | Episode: "Reach Out and Touch" |
| The Wayne Brady Show | Various | 6 episodes | |
| Roswell | Windy Sommers | Episode: "Control" | |
| The Tick | Stacy Waxman | Episode: "Arthur Needs Space" | |
| 2002 | Philly | Charise DuPree | Episode: "Mojo Rising" |
| Home Alone 4 | Vera Murchins | TV film | |
| 2003 | Frasier | Shannon Palmer | Episode: "Maris Returns" |
| 2004, 2010, 2011, 2015 | Two and a Half Men | Miss Dolores Pasternak | 4 episodes |
| 2005 | My Name Is Earl | Shelly Stoker | Episode: "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" |
| 2006–2008 | Boston Legal | Renee Winger | 3 episodes |
| 2007–2010 | The Sarah Silverman Program | Scarlett Lacey | 4 episodes |
| 2007 | Heroes | Hope | 2 episodes |
| The Wedding Bells | Amanda Pontell | Main role | |
| 2008–2011 | American Dad! | Tracy / drunk girl / sorority girl | Voice; 2 episodes |
| 2008 | In Plain Sight | Teri Ranzino / Treena Morris | Episode: "Never the Bride" |
| Pushing Daisies | Betty Bee | Episode: "Bzzzzzzzzz!" | |
| 2009 | Numbers | Janet Galvin | Episode: "Ultimatum" |
| 2010 | Grey's Anatomy | Dr. Baylow | Episode: "The Time Warp" |
| Rizzoli & Isles | Merch owner | Episode: "I Kissed a Girl" | |
| The Life & Times of Tim | Receptionist / Marcy / Nancy (voice) | 4 episodes | |
| 2010–2011 | The Mentalist | Karen Cross | 2 episodes |
| $#*! My Dad Says | Katie Palmer | 2 episodes | |
| 2011 | Up All Night | Kaye | Episode: "Mr. Bob's Toddler Kaleidoscope" |
| Family Guy | Kitty Hawk woman (voice) | Episode: "Amish Guy" | |
| 2012 | Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 | Angie Beckencort | Episode: "Whatever It Takes..." |
| 2013 | Newsreaders | Rebecca Lionwek | Episode: "Auto Erotic" |
| 1600 Penn | Sarah Harlan | Episode: "Frosting/Nixon" | |
| 2 Broke Girls | Charity Channing | Episode: "And Not-So-Sweet Charity" | |
| Warehouse 13 | Lily Abbott | Episode: "The Big Snag" | |
| The Mindy Project | Nancy | Episode: "Mindy Lahiri Is a Racist" | |
| 2013–2014 | Inside Amy Schumer | Various roles | 3 episodes |
| The Exes | Sabrina/Julie | 2 episodes | |
| 2014 | The Crazy Ones | Melora | Episode: "Dead and Improved" |
| Jennifer Falls | Dina Simac | Main role | |
| Partners | Biffy Saint Murray | Episode: "Let's Have a Simple Gwedding" | |
| Infomercials | Jan Jeremy | Episode: "Goth Fitness" | |
| 2015 | Hot in Cleveland | Canadian Joy | 2 episodes |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Trudy Malco | Episode: "Granting Immunity" | |
| Z Nation | Bernadette | Episode: "Rozwell" | |
| Where the Bears Are | Maggie Dexter | 3 episodes | |
| TripTank | Woman / Crap Girl / Anna (voice) | 3 episodes | |
| 2015–2018 | Another Period | Celery Bellacourt / Celery Savoy | Recurring role |
| 2016 | Bordertown | Gert Buckwald (voice) | Main role |
| The Soul Man | Alicia | Recurring role | |
| Sing It! | Marcy | Main role | |
| Lady Dynamite | Carol Simples | Episode: "A Vaginismus Miracle" | |
| Major Crimes | Tina Walker | Episode: "Off the Wagon" | |
| Mary + Jane | Feminist mobile librarian | Episode: "Girl on Gurl" | |
| Notorious | Callie Connors | Episode: "Kept and Broken" | |
| 2017 | Dropping the Soap | Lily | 2 episodes |
| The Catch | Chloe Jackson | Episode: "The Bad Girl" | |
| Mom | Natasha | Recurring role, 5 episodes | |
| One Mississippi | Cassandra Night | Episode: "Who Do You Think You Are?" | |
| 2017–2018 | Disjointed | Mary Jane | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | The Goldbergs | Madame Charbenaux | Episode: "1990-Something" |
| Impulse | Cleo Coles | Main role | |
| 2019 | Drunk History | Christa Gruhle | Episode: "Love" |
| Bob Hearts Abishola | Liz | Episode: "Square Hamburger, Round Buns" | |
| The Unicorn | Ava | Episode: "Wade Delayed" | |
| Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas | Chrissy | TV film | |
| To Tell the Truth | Celebrity Panelist | Season 4, episode 11 | |
| 2020 | Dirty John | Karen Kintner | Recurring role (season 2;The Betty Broderick Story)[12] |
| 2021 | Mr. Mayor | Nicole | Episode: "Hearts Before Parts" |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks | Cardassian interrogator (voice) | Episode: "Strange Energies" | |
| A Tale Dark & Grimm | The Rain / Widow Fischer (voice) | 4 episodes | |
| Y: The Last Man | Roxanne | 5 episodes | |
| The Big Leap | Tonya Lovewell | 2 episodes | |
| 2022 | The Great North | Ms. McNamara / Limes (voice) | 3 episodes |
| Archer | Dr. Malory Lacania (voice) | Episode: "Out of Network" | |
| A Hollywood Christmas | Theresa Frost | TV film | |
| Celebrity Beef | Herself | Episode: "Critical Designer vs. Critically Acclaimed" | |
| 2023 | Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. | Ms. Crawford | Episode: "A Hui Hou (Until We Meet Again)" |
| Harlan Coben's Shelter | Hannah | 7 episodes | |
| 2024–2025 | The Sex Lives of College Girls | Tracey Baker | 2 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2012 | Greetings from Home | Sue | 12 episodes |
| 2013–14 | Cleaners | Eileen | Main role, 18 episodes |
| 2016 | The Lottery | Teresa Yaw | A Short Film OnShane Dawson TV |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2017 | Play Dodgeball with Ben Stiller | Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky | Omaze Charity Dodgeball |
| Run | Nurse | Music video byFoo Fighters |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1996 | 900 Oneonta | Burning Jewel | Circle Repertory Theatre September 15–22, 1996 |
| 2008 | Boeing-Boeing | Gretchen | Longacre Theatre September 9 – October 7, 2008 |
| 2012–2013 | Bare | Sister Joan | New World Stages December 19, 2012 – February 3, 2013 |
Actress Missi Pyle is 46.
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