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Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July
30, 1977) is an American actress and model, best known for playing Joy on
the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl. She was nominated for an Emmy for
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series in 2006 and 2007,
winning the award in 2007. She has also been nominated for a Screen Actors
Guild Award in 2006; and for a Golden Globe Award in 2007.
Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue
(née Smith), a dance instructor. She has two siblings: sister Jessica and
brother James Liston Jr. Pressly spent 11 years studying gymnastics and
dancing.
By the time she was fourteen, she was the spokeswoman for her modeling
agency "International Cover Model Search", and she had begun to gain
recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.
Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother
had moved while her parents were going through the process of a divorce.
Pressly subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally
emancipated from her parents at the age of 15 so she could attend a
modeling job in Japan; neither one of her parents could attend with her,
so she had to be emancipated to go on her own.
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 list; she is also
featured in its 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.
Pressly guest starred in episodes of several TV shows. In an episode of
the WB series Charmed, played Mylie, a mermaid trying to find love;
(Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe, later guest starred on My Name is
Earl.) Other series in which Pressly guest starred were The Twilight Zone,
Fastlane, 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 for Outstanding Supporting Actress
in a Comedy Series for her work on the show. She has also been nominated
for several other awards.
Pressly sang "Fever" in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls.
She has also appeared in a number of music videos, including "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 will guest-star on an
upcoming episode of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. She will play a
possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey (Patrick Warburton and Megyn
Price).
Friends for nine years since 1996, she started dating DJ Eric Calvo (aka
DJ Eric Cubeechee) in 2004. After Pressly became pregnant, the two became
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. 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 In November 2008 the couple
split up.
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.
In July 2009, Pressly became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh.
They married on September 26, 2009 at the Dick Clark Estate. Guests,
including Pressly's 2-year-old son Dezi James, attended the ceremony on a
bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. |
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The Oogieloves in the Big
Balloon Adventure (2010) .... Lola
Rex (2009) (TV) .... Jaime
"My Name Is Earl" .... Joy Turner / ... (96 episodes, 2005-2009)
- Dodge's Dad (2009) TV episode .... Joy Turner
- Inside Probe: Part 1 (2009) TV episode .... Joy Turner
- Inside Probe: Part 2 (2009) TV episode .... Joy Turner
- Gospel (2009) TV episode .... Joy Turner
- Bullies (2009) TV episode .... Joy Turner
(91 more)
I Love You, Man (2009) .... Denise
Venus & Vegas (2009) .... Tara
Saints Row 2 (2008) (VG) (voice) .... Jessica
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (voice) .... Mrs. Quilligan
... aka Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (USA: complete title)
... aka Horton (Philippines: English title)
... aka Horton Hears a Who! (Singapore: English title)
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006) .... Tina Armstrong
... aka D.O.A. - Dead or Alive (Germany)
... aka DOA (USA: short title)
"Las Vegas" .... Kerri Kowalski (1 episode, 2006)
- Coyote Ugly (2006) TV episode .... Kerri Kowalski
Death to the Supermodels (2005) (V) .... Tiffany
Cruel World (2005) .... Catherine Anderson
Evel Knievel (2004) (TV) .... Linda Bork
The Karate Dog (2004) (TV) .... Ashley Wilkens
Torque (2004) .... China
"Happy Family" .... Alex (1 episode, 2004)
- Rules and Girls (2004) TV episode .... Alex
"Becker" .... Grace (1 episode, 2003)
- Sister Spoils the Turkey (2003) TV episode .... Grace
"Fastlane" .... Sara Matthews (1 episode, 2003)
- Strap On (2003) TV episode .... Sara Matthews
Alligator Point (2003) (TV)
"The Twilight Zone" .... Sensuous Cindy (1 episode, 2002)
- Sensuous Cindy (2002) TV episode .... Sensuous Cindy
"Charmed" .... Mylie (1 episode, 2002)
- A Witch's Tail: Part 1 (2002) TV episode .... Mylie
Demon Island (2002) .... Tina
... aka Piñata: Survival Island (USA: video title)
Footprints (2002)
The Johnny Chronicles (2002) (TV) .... Charlie
Not Another Teen Movie (2001) .... Priscilla
... aka Sex Academy (Europe: English title: new title)
"Going to California" .... Kylie Guartz (1 episode, 2001)
- This Year's Model (2001) TV episode .... Kylie Guartz
Ticker (2001) .... Claire Manning
... aka The Other Side of the Law (Philippines: English title)
"Jack & Jill" .... Audrey Griffin (31 episodes, 1999-2001)
- And Jack and Jill Came Down the Hill (2001) TV episode .... Audrey
Griffin
- ...And Nothing But the Truth (2001) TV episode .... Audrey Griffin
- Bag Full of Love (2001) TV episode .... Audrey Griffin
- Battle of the Bahamas (2001) TV episode .... Audrey Griffin
- The Time/Sex Continuum (2001) TV episode .... Audrey Griffin
(26 more)
Joe Dirt (2001) .... Jill
... aka The Adventures of Joe Dirt (Canada: English title: TV title)
(USA: working title)
Tomcats (2001) .... Tricia
100 Girls (2000) .... Cynthia
Poor White Trash (2000) .... Sandy Lake
Best Actress (2000) (TV) .... Karen Kroll
Inferno (1999/II) .... Dottie Matthews
... aka Inferno (UK: TV title) (USA: alternative title)
... aka Desert Heat (UK: DVD title)
Trash (1999) .... C.J. Callum
... aka No Fear (UK)
... aka Nobody's Children (Europe: English title)
"Mortal Kombat: Conquest" .... Mika (3 episodes, 1998-1999)
- Flawed Victory (1999) TV episode .... Mika
- Festival of Death (1999) TV episode .... Mika
- Quan Chi (1998) TV episode .... Mika
Ringmaster (1998) .... Angel Zorzak
Can't Hardly Wait (1998) (as Jamie Pressly) .... Girlfriend #1
"Night Man" .... Yvette (1 episode, 1998)
... aka NightMan (USA)
- Double Vision (1998) TV episode .... Yvette
"Push" .... Nikki Lang (5 episodes, 1998)
- On Your Marks (1998) TV episode .... Nikki Lang
- Episode #1.2 (1998) TV episode .... Nikki Lang
- Episode #1.3 (1998) TV episode .... Nikki Lang
- Pilot (1998) TV episode .... Nikki Lang
- Stakes (1998) TV episode .... Nikki Lang
"Silk Stalkings" .... Kara Delaney (1 episode, 1998)
- Teacher's Pet (1998) TV episode .... Kara Delaney
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997) (V) .... Violet
... aka Poison Ivy III: The New Seduction (Australia)
Mercenary (1997) (TV) .... Pre-teen American Girl
Against the Law (1997) .... Sally the Waitress
The Journey: Absolution (1997) .... Allison Wade |
