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Pressly said in a 2006 interview with ''[[Esquire (magazine)|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 attacks|September 11, 2001]], but decided not to take the flight, because she felt it left too early in the morning.<ref>Mike Sager, "[http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0107jaimepressly What I've Learned: Jaime Pressly]," ''Esquire'' (Web site), Feb. 20, 2007.</ref> |
Pressly said in a 2006 interview with ''[[Esquire (magazine)|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 attacks|September 11, 2001]], but decided not to take the flight, because she felt it left too early in the morning.<ref>Mike Sager, "[http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0107jaimepressly What I've Learned: Jaime Pressly]," ''Esquire'' (Web site), Feb. 20, 2007.</ref> |
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In July 2009, Pressly became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289304,00.html Jaime Pressly Is Engaged! - Engagements, Jaime Pressly : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20308451,00.html Jaime Pressly Marries in Malibu - Weddings, Jaime Pressly : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
In July 2009, Pressly became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289304,00.html Jaime Pressly Is Engaged! - Engagements, Jaime Pressly : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20308451,00.html Jaime Pressly Marries in Malibu - Weddings, Jaime Pressly : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> On January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462029,00.html Jaime Pressly Divorce : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.usmagazine.com/healthylifestyle/news/jaime-pressly-files-for-divorce-2011281 Jaime Pressly Files For Divorce - UsMagazine.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Pressly was arrested in [[Santa Monica, California]] on the night of January 5, 2011 for suspicion of [[driving under the influence]] |
Pressly was arrested in [[Santa Monica, California]] on the night of January 5, 2011 for suspicion of [[driving under the influence]],<ref>"[http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/06/jaime-presly-arrested-dui-santa-monica-drunk-driving-driving-under-the-influence-my-name-is-earl/ Jaime Pressly Busted for DUI]," ''TMZ'' (website), Jan. 6, 2011.</ref> a charge to which she eventually pleaded no contest and received three years of informal probation.<ref>"[http://www.accessatlanta.com/celebrities-tv/jaime-pressly-pleads-no-1142182.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm Jaime Pressly pleads no contest to drunken driving]," 'AJC (website), Aug. 25, 2011.</ref><ref name="Grossberg">{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/jaime_pressly_dodges_jail_in_dui_case/260187|title=Jaime Pressly Dodges Jail in DUI Case|last=Grossberg|first=Josh|coauthors=Claudia Rosenbaum|date=August 25, 2011|publisher=E! Online|accessdate=26 August 2011}}</ref> |
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On January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20462029,00.html Jaime Pressly Divorce : People.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.usmagazine.com/healthylifestyle/news/jaime-pressly-files-for-divorce-2011281 Jaime Pressly Files For Divorce - UsMagazine.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
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Revision as of 19:38, 1 October 2013
Jaime Pressly | |
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 Pressly in January 2008 | |
| Born | Jaime Elizabeth Pressly July 30, 1977 Kinston, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Spouse |
Simran Singh (m. 2009–2011) |
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly[1] (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) as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive and I Love You, Man.
Early life
Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman.[2] She has two siblings: sister Jessica and brother James Liston Pressly, Jr. She spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing.
Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through a divorce. By age 14, she had appeared on her first cover ('Teen Magazine) and had become the official spokesmodel for the International Cover Model Search and soon after began to get recognition for modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.[citation needed] Pressly subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15 so she could travel to Japan as neither of her parents could make the trip, so she had to be emancipated to go on her own.[3]
A family legend from Pressly's grandmother claims they are distant relatives of singer Elvis Presley, though the story has not been proven.[4]
Career
Pressly starred as "Violet" in the 1997 film Poison Ivy: The New Seduction. 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 Mortal Kombat: Conquest. 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[5] list; she is also featured in its[6] 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.[7]
Pressly guest starred in episodes of several TV shows. In an episode of the WB series Charmed, she played Mylie, a mermaid trying to find love; (Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe, later guest starred on My Name is Earl.[8]) Other series in which Pressly guest starred were The Twilight Zone, Fastlane, Las Vegas, 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[9] for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show. She has also been nominated for several other awards.[10]
Pressly sang "Fever" in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls.[11] 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 would guest-star on an upcoming episode (series 4, episode 10) of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. She would play a possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey (Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price).[12] She reprised her role in the 5th season premiere (series 5, episode 1).
She is in the 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.
Pressly appeared in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which aired from November 30, 2011 to March 20, 2012.
In July 2012, Pressly starred in Jimbo Lee's Abby in the Summer, produced by Gabriel Cowan, John Suits, Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller against Robin Thicke, Joey Lauren Adams and Frances Conroy.[13]
In 2013, TV Land announced that Pressly was cast in the lead role for Jennifer Falls as Jennifer Doyle, a mother of a teenaged daughter, who must move in with Doyle's mother after being fired from a high-paying job. Doyle becomes a waitress in her brother's bar.[14]
Personal life
Friends since 1996, she started dating DJ Eric Calvo (a.k.a. DJ Eric Cubeechee) in 2004. After Pressly became pregnant, the two were 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.[15] 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.[16] In November 2008 the couple announced their separation.[17]
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.[18]
In July 2009, Pressly became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh.[19] 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.[20] On January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences.[21][22]
Pressly was arrested in Santa Monica, California on the night of January 5, 2011 for suspicion of driving under the influence,[23] a charge to which she eventually pleaded no contest and received three years of informal probation.[24][25]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Mercenary | Pre-teen American Girl | |
| 1997 | Poison Ivy: The New Seduction | 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 | 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 | Evel Knievel |
| 2005 | Death to the Supermodels | Tiffany Courtney | Straight-to-video, Producer |
| 2006 | DOA: Dead or Alive | Tina Armstrong | |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who! | Mrs. Quilligan | Voice |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | Denise | |
| 2010 | 6 Month Rule | Claire | |
| 2012 | The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure | Lola Sombrero | |
| 2013 | Abby in the Summer | Abby | Post-production, executive producer |
| 2014 | A Haunted House 2 | Filming |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Mortal Kombat: Conquest | Mika | |
| 1998 | Push | Nikki Lang | Episodes 1–8 |
| 1999–2001 | Jack & Jill | Audrey Griffin | |
| 2002 | Charmed | Mylie | Episode "A Witch's Tail: Part 1" |
| 2002 | The Twilight Zone | Cindy | Episode "Sensuous Cindy" |
| 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 Series Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy Series Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series |
| 2006 | Las Vegas | Kerry Kowalski | Episode "Coyote Ugly" |
| 2010 | Rules of Engagement | Pam Milton | Episodes "The Surrogate" and "Surro-gate" |
| 2010 | Smoke Screen | Britt Shelley | TV movie |
| 2010 | Beauty and the Briefcase | Kate | TV movie |
| 2011 | Raising Hope | Donna | Episode "Baby Monitor" |
| 2011–2013 | I Hate My Teenage Daughter | Annie Watson | Main cast |
| 2013 | Two and a Half Men | Tammy | Episodes: "Paint it, Pierce it, Plug it!", "Bazinga! Thats from a TV Show!" |
| 2013 | Phineas and Ferb | Rosie | Voice, Episode: "Mind Share" |
Music Videos
| Year | Artist | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Dave Matthews Band | The Space Between |
| 2002 | Aerosmith | Girls of Summer |
| 2002 | Marilyn Manson | Tainted Love |
| 2003 | Youngbloodz | Lean Low |
| 2013 | Michael Buble | It's A Beautiful Day |
Video Games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Saints Row 2 | Jessica | Voice |
References
- ^ According to the State of North Carolina. North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000. At Ancestry.com
- ^ "The Almost It Girl," Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, October 20, 2003, p. 96
- ^ "20Q: Jaime Pressly", Interviewed by Stephen Rebello, Playboy, September 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ Pressly: 'I'm Related To Elvis'. Contactmusic.com. 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ^ Hot 100
- ^ Girls of Maxim
- ^ "Stars line up for naked spread," Allure, May 2006.
- ^ "Exclusive: Earl Charmed By Alyssa Milano". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
- ^ Jaime Pressly Emmy Award Winner
- ^ Awards and Nominations at IMDB
- ^ "Quick Exit: Loose Lip-Syncers Sink Hopes", show review by Kelefa Sanneh, The New York Times, January 28, 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ Kate Stanhope. "Jaime Pressly to Appear on Rules of Engagement". TVGuide.com.
- ^ Sneider, Jeff (July 16, 2012). "Pressly, Thicke to star in 'Summer'". Variety.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (August 5, 2013). "Jaime Pressly Cast in New TV Land Pilot 'Jennifer Falls'". Zap2it via TV Land press release. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ^ "Jaime Pressly Has a New (Little) Man", by Sarah Hall, E! Online, May 11, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ "My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly Has a Son", by Maureen Harrington, People (magazine), May 11, 2007.
- ^ "Jamie Pressly and Her Fiancé Separate". People.com. November 5, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ Mike Sager, "What I've Learned: Jaime Pressly," Esquire (Web site), Feb. 20, 2007.
- ^ Jaime Pressly Is Engaged! - Engagements, Jaime Pressly : People.com
- ^ Jaime Pressly Marries in Malibu - Weddings, Jaime Pressly : People.com
- ^ Jaime Pressly Divorce : People.com
- ^ Jaime Pressly Files For Divorce - UsMagazine.com
- ^ "Jaime Pressly Busted for DUI," TMZ (website), Jan. 6, 2011.
- ^ "Jaime Pressly pleads no contest to drunken driving," 'AJC (website), Aug. 25, 2011.
- ^ Grossberg, Josh (August 25, 2011). "Jaime Pressly Dodges Jail in DUI Case". E! Online. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
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External links
- Official Website
- Jaime Pressly at IMDb
- Middletown Journal interview (March 2, 2006)
- About.com interview (December 2001)
- Dr. Drew interview
- Jaime Pressly at Emmys.com
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