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Jaime Pressly
The Slim-Fast Fashion Show, January 2008
Born	Jaime Elizabeth Pressly July 30, 1977 (1977-07-30) (age 31) Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Model
Years active	1997–present
Domestic partner(s)	Eric Cubiche

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly¹ (born July 30, 1977) is an American actress and model. Best known as Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series in 2006 and 2007, winning in 2007, for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 and a Golden Globe Award in 2007.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor. She has two siblings: sister, Jessica; brother, James Liston Jr. Pressly spent 11 years studying gymnastics and dancing;

By the time she was fourteen, she was already the spokeswoman for her modeling agency, "International Cover Model Search", and she had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.

Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through the process of a divorce. Jaime subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15.²

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 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 annual³ list; she is also featured in its⁴ 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.⁵

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.⁶) Other series in which Pressly guest starred were The Twilight Zone, Fastlane, 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.⁷

Pressly sang "Fever" in an appearance with the band The Pussycat Dolls.⁸ She has also appeared in a number of music videos, including "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.

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 lend her voice for the videogame Saints Row 2 in which she plays the role of Maero's girlfriend Jessica, members of "The Brotherhood".

Pressly was a producer as well as a star in the 2005 movie Death to the Supermodels.

Personal life

In October 2006, she became engaged to her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half, DJ Eric Calvo (aka DJ Eric Cubiche), with whom she had been friends for nine years. Pressley gave birth on May 11, 2007 at 7:31 a.m. in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to their first child, Dezi James Calvo.⁹ 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. The Emmy-winning actress 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.¹⁰ The couple have since separated.

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.¹¹

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Poison Ivy: The New Seduction	Violet
	The Journey: Absolution	Allison Waite
1998	Can't Hardly Wait	Beth
	Ringmaster	Angel
1999	Inferno	Dottie Matthews
2000	100 Girls	Cynthia
	Poor White Trash	Sandy Lake
2001	Not Another Teen Movie	Priscilla
	Ticker	Claire Manning
	Joe Dirt	Jill
	Tomcats	Tricia
2002	Demon Island	Tina
2002	Charmed	Mylie	Episode A Witch's Tail Part 1 and A Witch's Tail Part 2
2003	Becker	Grace	Episode "Sister Spoils the Turkey"
2004	Torque	China
2005	Death to the Supermodels	Tiffany Courtney
2005 - 2009	My Name Is Earl	Joy Turner	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series - 2007 Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series - 2006 Nominated - Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress- 2007 Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series - 2006 Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film - 2007
2006	DOA: Dead or Alive	Tina Armstrong
2008	Horton Hears a Who!	Mrs. Quilligan	voice
2009	I Love You, Man	Denise

References

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Jaime Pressly

• Jaime Pressly at the Internet Movie Database
• Jaime Pressly in Maxim Magazine
• Middletown Journal interview (March 2, 2006)
• About.com interview (December 2001)
• Dr. Drew interview

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