April Bowlby

Her family moved from Vallejo, California to Manteca, California when she was a child.{{Cite web |title=April Bowlby Biography|url=https://www.racctrusted.com/c/april-bowlby/biography/ |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=Real Autograph Collectors Club (RACC)}} She attended and graduated from East Union High School. Bowlby began a modelling career before deciding to pursue acting.

Bowlby secured the role of Kandi on the television series Two and a Half Men within months of her first auditions. She is also known for her role as Stacy Barrett in Drop Dead Diva. She played Barney Stinson's obsessive ex-girlfriend Meg in How I Met Your Mother,{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/10/drop-dead-divas-bowlby-back-on-how-i-met-your-mother.html|title='Drop Dead Diva's' Bowlby back on 'How I Met Your Mother'|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California|date=October 27, 2009|access-date=September 18, 2018}} and has made appearances in CSI, Psych, and CSI: NY.{{cite web|first=Rich|last=Freedman|url=http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/zz/20110715/NEWS/110717227|title=Vallejo-born actress scores with 'Drop Dead Diva'|website=Vallejo Times Herald|publisher=Digital First Media|location=Vallejo, California|date=July 15, 2011|access-date=September 18, 2018}}{{cite web|title=April Bowlby|work=Lifetime: Shows: Drop Dead Diva|publisher=Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC|url=http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/drop-dead-diva/cast/april-bowlby|access-date=May 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525064125/http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/drop-dead-diva/cast/april-bowlby|archive-date=May 25, 2013|url-status=dead}} She has appeared in films such as All Roads Lead Home (2008),{{cite web|last=B|first=Consuela|title=April Bowlby Is All Roads Lead Home|work=Right Cinema|publisher=Right Cinema|date=September 27, 2008|url=http://movies.rightcelebrity.com/april-bowlby-is-all-roads-lead-home/205|access-date=May 21, 2013}} The Slammin' Salmon (2009),{{cite web|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|title=Movie Review: The Slammin' Salmon|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/movies/11slammin.html|newspaper=The New York Times|location=New York City|date=December 10, 2009|access-date=May 21, 2013}}{{cite web|last=F.|first=Jason|title=The Slammin' Salmon Review|website=Media Decay|publisher=Media Decay|date=March 17, 2010|url=http://www.mediadecay.com/2010/03/the-slammin-salmon-review/|access-date=May 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235043/http://www.mediadecay.com/2010/03/the-slammin-salmon-review/|archive-date=April 26, 2014|url-status=dead}} and From Prada to Nada (2011).{{cite web|title=From Prada to Nada (2011)|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Flixster, Inc.|location=San Francisco, California|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/from_prada_to_nada_2011/|access-date=May 21, 2013}}

She starred as Rita Farr on the show Doom Patrol.{{cite web|first=Natalie|last=Abrams|url=http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/20/titans-casts-drop-dead-diva-star-as-elasti-girl/|title=Titans casts Drop Dead Diva star as Elasti-Girl|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|publisher=Meredith Corporation|location=New York City|date=February 20, 2018|access-date=February 21, 2018}}

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