Lindsay Hollister

{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Lindsay Hollister

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|6|3}}

| birth_place = Columbus, Ohio, United States

| yearsactive = 2001–present

| alma_mater = Miami University

| occupation = Actress

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Lindsay Hollister (born June 3, 1977) is an American actress.{{cite web|title=Lindsay Hollister|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/377887/Lindsay-Hollister|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130923154513/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/377887/Lindsay-Hollister|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|archive-date=2013-09-23}}

Biography

Hollister was born in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Pickerington High School Central and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre Performance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

She has appeared in many American television shows, including Boston Public, Popular, Days of Our Lives, ER, Cold Case, Nip/Tuck and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

She appeared as Nell Goldman in the Scrubs episode "My Boss's Free Haircut", Laurie Dunne in Cold Case episode "The Promise (Cold Case episode), Xena in the My Name Is Earl episode "O Karma, Where Art Thou?", and Maureen in the Desperate Housewives episode "No One Is Alone".

She appeared in the films Bachelor Party Vegas in 2006, From Bubba With Love and Postal in 2007, Disfigured (2008 film) and Get Smart in 2008 as Steve Carell's dance partner.{{cite web|work=The Columbus Dispatch|url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2008/06/20/1_LINDSAY_IN_GET_SMART.ART_ART_06-20-08_D3_VKAHNHP.html|title=Actress goes dancing with the stars|first=Frank|last=Gabrenya|date=June 20, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl= https://archive.is/kLG6a|archivedate=September 23, 2013}}

Hollister starred as the title character in the 2011 Uwe Boll film Blubberella.{{cite magazine|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/10/25/uwe-boll-blubberella/|title=Uwe Boll's new movie is called 'Blubberella': Yes, really.|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=13 November 2010}} She stated she took the role because of diminishing opportunities for overweight actresses to find work in Hollywood.{{cite web|url=http://www.popzara.com/popzara-interviews-lindsay-hollister/ |title=Popzara Interviews: Lindsay Hollister |work=Popzara Press |accessdate=17 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821012017/http://www.popzara.com/popzara-interviews-lindsay-hollister/ |archivedate=21 August 2014 }}

Filmography

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Role

2016

| Pee-wee's Big Holiday

| Peggy Brown

2013

| Sweet Talk

| Ginny

rowspan=4| 2011

| Walk a Mile in My Pradas

| Laura

Blubberella

| Blubberella

Some Guy Who Kills People

| Paula Prichard

Birds of a Feather

| Bee Bee

2009

| Bones

| Bartender

rowspan=4| 2008

| Tranny McGuyver

| Officer Margie

Disfigured

| Alive

Get Smart

| Max's dance partner

CSI: NY

| Plus Size Paula

rowspan=2| 2007

| Postal

| Recorder

The Shield

| Lisa Franklin

rowspan=5| 2006

| Desperate Housewives

| Maureen

Puff, Puff, Pass

| Heather

Bachelor Party Vegas

| Bachelorette

Big Love

| Sally

My Name Is Earl

| Xena

rowspan=3| 2005

| Cold Case

| Laurie Dunne

Scrubs

| Nell Goldman

McBride: It's Murder, Madam

| Becky Sullivan

rowspan=3| 2004

| A Cinderella Story

| Bachelorette #2

Joan of Arcadia

| Computer Girl God / Library Girl God

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

| Agnes Linsky

rowspan=2| 2003

| Special Breakfast Eggroll: 99¢

| Karla

Nip/Tuck

| Nanette Babcock

rowspan=2| 2002

| ER

| Theresa Matthews

Sex and the Teenage Mind

| Margret Lapinski

rowspan=7| 2001

| Days of Our Lives

| Susan Adamson #1

Going to California

| Natalie

Strong Medicine

| Margie Sinowski

Any Day Now

| Henrietta

Popular

| Big Bertha Muffin

Boston Public

| Christine Banks / The Blob

The Drew Carey Show

| Office Woman

References

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