Jaime Pressly

At 47 years old, Jaime Pressly has this physical status:

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American actress and model.

She is best known for her appearances on 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 Actor Guild Award.

She has appeared in films including Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997), Joe Dirt (2001), DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), and I Love You, Man (2009).

In the television show Mom, Jill is now portrayed by the actress.

Early life and modeling

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the niece of Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman. She and her family immigrated to Costa Mesa, California, where she spent the first semester of her high school sophomore year in 1992. She spent her childhood and early teenage years as a gymnast, which culminated in modeling jobs. She appeared on her first cover, Teen Magazine, and became the International Cover Model Search spokesmodel. She dropped out of school at 15 and moved to Japan on a modeling job. She did well in being emancipated from her parents at 15 so she could travel to Japan, but neither of her parents nor her mother could make the trip.

Personal life

Pressly has revealed in interviews that she briefly suffered with bulimia as a child.

She met DJ Eric Calvo in 1996 and they started dating in 2004. Pressley gave birth to their son on May 11, 2007. The couple announced their divorce in November 2008.

Pressly announced her commitment to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh nine months later in July 2009. They married on September 26, 2009, on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Pressly applied for divorce from Singh on January 21, 2011, citing irreconcilable inconsistencies.

Pressly was arrested in Santa Monica, California, on January 5, 2011, two weeks before filing for divorce, on suspicion of driving under the influence. She eventually pleaded no contest and received three years of informal probation.

Pressly gave twin sons with her longtime boyfriend Hamzi Hijazi in October 2017.

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Acting career

In the 1997 direct-to-DVD film Poison Ivy, the third installment of the Poison Ivy series, Violet, a vengeful seductress, made her first appearance in Baywatch in 1995, later shooting a cameo in the film Mercenary in 1996. Television appearances followed after a brief appearance in the short-lived Push and Mortal Kombat: Conquest. She went on to play one of Jack & Jill's two seasons, from September 26, 1999, to April 15, 2001, on The WB. Poor White Trash (2000), starring scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake, and appearing in three 2001 theatrical releases aimed at a teen audience, which in spite of various degrees of success, gave her more exposure. In the parody film Not Another Teen Movie, a parody film starring David Spade, Priscilla, a high school cheerleader opposite Chris Evans, was cast as a young woman in the sex comedy Tomcats and the one of a Southern love interest in Joe Dirt, opposite David Spade.

Pressly appeared as a college student stuck on a haunted island in the independent horror film Demon Island in 2002. Felix Vasquez of Cinema Crazed said it was a guilty pleasure and that "[She] does what she can with her character and comes off as a rather charming figure." In the action thriller Torque (2004), she portrayed a terrified, motorcycle-riding criminal alongside Ice Cube. "She is often depicted as a result of her appearance and Southern sassination, according to a New Yorker, who referred to this period of her career, and she has appeared in several forgettable teensploitation films."

Pressly played Joy Turner, the naught, ardent, and vain ex-wife of a small-time robber on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, which was a hit among critics and audiences alike. She has received accolades for her Golden Globe and a Screen Actor Guild Award, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007. Once more, she referred to her role as her "greatest debut" and thanked designer Greg Garcia for resurrecting her confidence in the industry. "The series] came at a time when I was questioning whether this was the way I wanted to go." I was sick of being stranded inside my suitcase, so I was up and running all the time. "I wanted a little bit of normalcy in my life."

During the early days of My Name is Earl, Pressly produced and played the role of a homicidal magazine editor in the independent film Death to the Supermodels (2004), a role she compared to that of Reese Witherspoon in Politics. "Jaime Pressly is a comedic and joking woman," Scott Weinberg of DVDTalk.com wrote about the film. To those of you who are just now discovering Jaime Pressly's sneering, eyerolling, attitude machine, I'd suggest you check out her appearances in films such as Ringmaster, Tomcats, Joe Dirt, Torque, and Not Another Teen Movie. Well, if we were giving out an award for "the consistently top thing in a string of generally awful comedies," Jaime would have walked home with the award, no sweat. [...] Despite how bad the film is [...] Jaime always seems to be a kooky and kinetic cartoon character who has somehow figured out how to become flesh & blood. Yes, she's sexy and all that stuff, but Jaime Pressly is also amusing, and it just amplifies all of her other assets."

Pressfully starred as one of four female fighters battling together to reveal the mystery that the promoter of an invitational martial arts competition is attempting to mask in DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), a British-German martial arts action film. Although the film was generally well-received in some markets, it was only in North America that it attracted a small audience. "My Name Is Earl", a parody of My Name Is Earl, "My Name Is Dubya"), she produced a list of all the bad things she has done in the past and rectifies them one by one. In Horton Hears a Who!, she portrayed a bird. Jim Cary, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, and others appeared in a 2008 film starring Jim Carney, Steve Carell, Jim Carney, and others.

Pressly starred Paul Rudd and Jason Segel as the best friend of a bride-to-be and one half of a volatile marriage couple in I Love You, Man (2009). The film received critical acclaim and became a box office hit, with grossing US$92 million globally. Rolling Stone found her "terrific" in her role, adding, "Her battles with [her on-screen husband] have a real comedic bite."

Beauty & the Briefcase (2010), co-starring Hilary Duff, appeared in a Cosmopolitan magazine as a senior editor. The premiere attracted 2.4 million viewers, attracting a large female audience, which boosted the network to an all-time high in viewers. On a recent television film called Smoke Screen, she found herself in the middle of a murder probe when she awakened next to a dead body. Pressly appeared in two episodes of CBS' Rules of Engagement as a potential surrogate mother for Jeff and Audrey in 2010 (Patrick Warburton and Megyn Price).

The New York Times referred to an independent film that was limited theaters and digital stores as a "harridan of an ex-fiancée." In the Big Balloon Adventure (2012), she appeared as a flamenco dancer riding a huge flying sombrero. The film, which was budgeted at US$20 million, only made more than 2,000 screens in the first weekend. In two short-lived films, pressly next appeared on television in two short films. I Hate My Teenage Daughter (2011-2012) starred a mother who is afraid her daughter is growing into the kind of girl who mocked her in high school, while Jennifer Falls (2014), a single mother who was fired from a high-paying career, became a waitress in her brother's bar, as the mother of a single mother.

Pressly obtained leading roles in three outing films in 2014. Together with Marlon Wayans, Pressly starred as a mother of two and one half of an interracial couple in A Haunted House 2. She had been working with Wayans for 15 years before filming, and this was the first time they worked together. "It was a match made in heaven," she characterized the process. It was true. We're both high energy, and we all want to do something new every take, and when you do come down, the bulk of the time, it's about trying to one up each other, which makes for a good laugh. Critics also slammed the film, but it was a good box office success. In the romantic comedy Making the Rules, which was shot in 2012, she starred opposite singer Robin Thicke. Pressley's latest finders Keepers, a television horror film, saw Pressley play a divorced mother whose life is turned upside down as her teenage daughter's lives are disrupted as a result of her young daughter's obsession with an evil doll left behind by her previous owners.

Since 2014, Pressly has portrayed Jill Kendall, a wealthy socialite and alcoholic, as the CBS sitcom Mom.

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