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Missi Pyle Profile |
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Birth Date: November 16, 1972
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Birth Place: Houston, Texas, USA
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Birth Name: Andrea Kay Pyle
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Height: 5'11"
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Biography |
Andrea Kay Pyle was born on November 16, 1972 in Houston,
Texas. She adopted the name "Missi" after her parents, Frank
and Linda, continually referred to her as "our little Missi"
when she was a child.
Her parents divorced and her mother remarried and moved her
to Germantown, Tennessee. Missi always liked play-acting as
a child and, by age 13, she started auditioning for many
roles at Germantown High School, one of the top three
performing arts high schools in the United States.
At the same time, Missi also began working on her singing
voice. She landed lead singing/acting roles in productions
of No, No Nanette and Anything Goes. Upon graduation from
high school in 1991, Missi auditioned and was accepted into
the prominent North Carolina School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There, she landed numerous
female lead roles in Shakespearean plays.
During one of her summer breaks, Missi flew to England to
advance her acting skills at the Oxford School of Drama.
After she graduated in 1995, she was picked up by the
Paradigm acting agency in New York.
Missi's first brush with fame came when she played John
Malkovich's wife in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater production
of The Libertine. That is where she met her husband,
storyteller Antonio Sacre.
In 1996, Missi landed her first big-screen role in The
Cottonwood, but her true rise to fame occurred when she got
a bit role in As Good as It Gets (1997) opposite Jack
Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Cuba Gooding Jr. Over the next few
years, Missi continued to etch her face into the public
mind.
She made guest appearances on a slew of hit TV shows
throughout the late '90s to early 2000s, including Mad About
You, The Drew Carey Show, Friends, Ally McBeal, and Frasier.
Her most memorable performance came in 1999 when she
portrayed a wild-eyed, buxom alien creature in the sci-fi
cult hit, Galaxy Quest. Her star power rose a few notches
after this and she quickly became a fixture of the
lighthearted movie genre. She appeared in the following
comedic hits and misses: Josie and the Pussycats (2001),
Bringing Down the House (2003), BachelorMan (2003), Big Fish
(2003), and Exposed (2003).
In 2004, she began an affiliation with the actors in the
"Frat Pack," namely Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Will
Ferrell. She landed many roles as an idiosyncratic woman in
films such as Along Came Polly (2004), 50 First Dates
(2004), Soul Plane (2004), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(2004), and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).
In 2005, Missi can be seen in the much-anticipated remake of
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, opposite Johnny Depp, as
well as in Just My Luck and American Crude. Missi is also a
talented comedienne in her own right. She is part of the
all-woman comedy troupe known as "Bitches Funny," and
regularly performs with them when she is not making movies.
Missi has a cat named Chester and a dog named Saskia. She
lives in Los Angeles and is currently separated from her
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Other
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1991 graduate of Germantown (Tennessee) High School.
Appeared in school's GHS-TV cable access station and Poplar
Pike Playhouse theatre.
In the mid-1990s, played the "black widow" character at the
interactive theme restaurant, Jekyll and Hyde, in New York
City.
Attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Ranked #98 in Maxim's '100 Sexiest Women' (2004) |
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