Jaime Pressly Biography

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (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. 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. 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.

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 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, she 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, 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 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 "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). 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.

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.

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. 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 announced their separation.

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 January 21, 2011, Pressly filed for divorce from Singh, citing irreconcilable differences.

On August 25, 2011, she pleaded no contest to her January 5, 2011 DUI charge and received three years of informal probation.

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