| Missi Pyle |
Pyle at the Dallas Comic Con 2008 |
| Born |
Andrea Kay Pyle
November 16, 1972 (1972-11-16) (age 36)
Houston, Texas |
Andrea Kay "Missi" Pyle (born November 16, 1972) is an American actress. She has appeared in several films, including Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
Biography
Personal life
Pyle was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Linda and Frank Pyle.1 She has two older sisters, Debbie and Julie, two older brothers Sam and Paul, and one younger half-brother Gordon, and a half-sister Meredith. Pyle attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated in 1995. For her achievements, Pyle was honored by the Poplar Pike Playhouse at her alma mater Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee.
Pyle married Casey R. Anderson, a grizzly bear specialist for National Geographic, in September 2008. The wedding was country-western themed and took place in Montana.
Career
She has guest starred on many television shows, including Heroes, Mad About You, Boston Legal, and The Sarah Silverman Program. She started her film career with a minor role in As Good as It Gets, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. After her breakout role in Galaxy Quest, she had supporting roles in Bringing Down the House (for which she and Queen Latifah were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight), Josie and the Pussycats, Exposed, Big Fish, Along Came Polly, Soul Plane and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Barely recognizable, she stars in Dodgeball . She also had a brief appearance in 50 First Dates. She was ranked #98 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.2
Pyle is also part of a music group with actress Shawnee Smith called Smith & Pyle. Their first CD, It's OK to Be Happy, was released in July 2008.3
She is very often confused with Elaine Hendrix, best known for playing Meredith Blake in the 1998 movie The Parent Trap, also starring Lindsay Lohan.
Missi is currently starring in the Broadway play, Boeing-Boeing opposite Gina Gershon, Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Kathryn Hahn, and Greg Germann.
Pyle was scheduled to ring the closing bell for the trading day at the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, 2008 to promote Boeing-Boeing, but backed out minutes before the close of trading in order to not associate herself with ending a calamitous day of financial turmoil which resulted in the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 778 points, the largest point loss ever in a session in the wake of the global financial crisis of September–October 2008. She watched from the floor as an NYSE staffer pushed the button and gaveled the end of trading instead 4.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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