Anna Kay Faris is an American actress, producer, comedian, podcaster, and author. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films. She starred as Erica, the birth mother to Monica Geller and Chandler Bing’s twins in the final season of the NBC sitcom Friends. From 2013 to 2020, she starred as Christy Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom. In 2015, Faris launched Unqualified, an advice podcast, and in 2017, her memoir of the same name was published.
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Anna Kay Faris is an American actress, producer, comedian, podcaster, and author. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films. Faris has also had voice-over roles in the film franchises Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Alvin and the Chipmunks. In 2015, Faris launched Unqualified, an advice podcast, and in 2017, her memoir of the same name was published, which became a New York Times Best Seller. She starred as Erica, the birth mother to Monica Geller and Chandler Bing’s twins in the final season of the NBC sitcom Friends. From 2013 to 2020, she starred as Christy Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom. She has also appeared in a number of films, including The Hot Chick, May, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Just Friends, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Smiley Face, The House Bunny, What’s Your Number?, The Dictator, and Overboard. She is the daughter of Jack, a sociology professor, and Karen Faris, a special education teacher. Her older brother, Robert, is also a sociologist and professor at the University of California, Davis. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young, and she gave her first professional acting performance at 9 years old in a three-month run of Arthur Miller’s play Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theater. She once described herself as \”a drama-club dork,\” stating that she used to wear a Christmas-tree skirt in school and did not date until senior year.
She went on to play Scout in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Issaquah, Washington, Village Theatre, and played the title character in Heidi in Our Killbird. While attending high school, she appeared a frozen yogurt TV commercial for Red Robin, which is a training video for which she is now the hostessessess. In May 2012, she had a small role in the made-for-TV movie Deception: A Mother’s Secret, where she played a character named Liz. She had a role in a small-scale drama, Eden, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival shortly after college. She then attended University of Washington and earned a degree in English literature in 1999. In interviews, she has described her parents as \”ultra liberal\” and said that she and her brother were raised in an irreligious but \”very conservative,\” traditional atmosphere. After graduating from college, she was going to travel to London to work as a receptionist at an ad agency, but ended up living in Los Angeles at the last minute, once she committed to the idea of pursuing mainstream acting. At 22, she lived in a studio apartment at the Ravenswood in Hancock Park. Despite her love for acting, she admitted she never really thought wanted to become a movie star and continued to act just to make some extra money.
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