Name:Jaime Elizabeth Pressly
Date of Birth:July 30, 1977
Place of Birth:Kinston, North CarolinaU.S
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. Jaime Pressly 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. Jaime Pressly 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 James List Pressly and Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor. Jaime Pressly has two siblings: sister Jessica and brother James Liston Pressly, Jr. Jaime Pressly has 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 was the spokeswoman for her modeling agency "International Cover Model Search" and had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.Pressly subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15 so she could take up a modeling job in Japan; neither of parents could make the trip, so she had to be emancipated to go on her own.
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. Jaime Pressly 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. Jaime Pressly 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. Jaime Pressly also appeared in an episode of the prank series Punk'd.
Pressly at the 2009 premiere of I Love You, ManIn 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. Jaime Pressly has also been nominated for several other awards.
Pressly sang "Fever" in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls.Jaime Pressly 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. Jaime Pressly 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. Jaime Pressly 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 of the CBS comedy, Rules of Engagement. Jaime Pressly would play a possible surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey (Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price). Jaime Pressly reprised her role in the 5th season premiere.
Jaime Pressly is in the new 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 will appear in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter, slated to premiere on November 30, 2011.
Personal Life
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 two-year-old son Dezi James, attended the ceremony on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Pressly was arrested in Santa Monica, California on the night of January 5, 2011 for suspicion of driving under the influence. On August 25, 2011, she pleaded no contest and received three years of informal probation.
On January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences. In her divorce petition, Pressly listed the couple's date of separation as December 27, 2010, nine days before her DUI arrest.
Filmography/Television
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 Mortal Kombat: Conquest Mika
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
2006 DOA: Dead or Alive Tina Armstrong
2008 Saints Row 2 Jessica Voice
2008 Horton Hears a Who! Mrs. Quilligan Voice
2009 I Love You, Man Denise
2010 The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure Lola
2010 6 Month Rule Claire
Year Title Role Notes
Television 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
2010 Rules of Engagement Audrey's surrogate mother 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-present I Hate My Teenage Daughter Annie Watson Main cast
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