Missi Pyle
{{short description|American actress and singer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Needs more sources|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Missi Pyle
| image = Missi Pyle 2012.jpg
| caption = Pyle at the 2012 ACE Eddie Awards in Beverly Hills, California
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|11|16}}
| birth_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.
| education = University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA)
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|singer}}
| years_active = 1995–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Antonio Sacre|2000|2005|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Casey Anderson|2008|2012|reason=divorced}}
}}
| children = 1
| module = {{infobox musical artist
| embed = yes
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = Country
| past_member_of = {{hlist|Smith & Pyle}}
| label = Urban Prairie Records
| associated_acts =
| website =
| notable_instruments =
}}
}}
Missi Pyle (born November 16, 1972){{cite news |title=On this Date: Birthdays |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114484651/the-modesto-bee/ |access-date=December 12, 2022 |work=The Modesto Bee |agency=The Associated Press |quote=Actress Missi Pyle is 46. |date=November 16, 2018 |page=A 2 |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212020650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114484651/the-modesto-bee/ |url-status=live }} is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in a number of films, including Galaxy Quest (1999), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Bringing Down the House (2003), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), The Artist (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), and Ma (2019).{{Cite web |title=Missi Pyle Filmography and Movies |url=https://www.fandango.com/people/missi-pyle-544421/film-credits |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Fandango |language=en}}
Pyle has also appeared in various television series, such as The Mentalist (2010), Cleaners (2013–2014), Jennifer Falls (2014), Another Period (2015–2018), Bordertown (2016), The Soul Man (2016), Mom (2017), Impulse (2018–2019), and Dirty John (2020).
In addition to acting, Pyle has also previously worked as a singer. With actress Shawnee Smith, she served as half of Smith & Pyle, a country rock duo.
Career
Pyle has guest starred on many television shows, including Heroes, Mad About You, Boston Legal, Frasier, The Sarah Silverman Program, and 2 Broke Girls. She started her film career with a minor role in As Good as It Gets, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. After her breakout role in Galaxy Quest, she had supporting roles in Bringing Down the House (for which she and Queen Latifah were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight), Josie and the Pussycats, Home Alone 4, Exposed, Big Fish, Along Came Polly, Soul Plane, Stormbreaker, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was the female lead in BachelorMan. She appears in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. She had a brief appearance in 50 First Dates and starred in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song.
File:Équipe The Artist Cannes 2011.jpg at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival; (left to right) Ludovic Bource (composer), Michel Hazanavicius (director), Missi Pyle (actress), Bérénice Bejo (actress), Jean Dujardin (actor), Guillaume Schiffman (cinematographer), and Thomas Langmann (producer)]]
Pyle played Jake's elementary school teacher Ms. Pasternak on Two and a Half Men. The role was recast in 2009 for undisclosed reasons; however, it is believed that it was to show the emotional change she went through after Charlie dumped and hurt her.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Pyle returned to the series in the same role in 2011 and again in the series finale "Of Course He's Dead" in 2015.
In 2008, Missi starred in the Broadway play Boeing-Boeing opposite Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Greg Germann, Paige Davis and Rebecca Gayheart. The play closed in January 2009.
Pyle was scheduled to ring the closing bell for the trading day at the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, 2008, to promote Boeing-Boeing, but backed out minutes before the close of trading so as not to associate herself with ending a calamitous day of financial turmoil which resulted in the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 778 points, the largest point loss ever in a session during the 2008 financial crisis. She watched from the floor as an NYSE staffer pushed the button and gaveled the end of trading instead.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/01bell.html?ref=business | work=The New York Times | title=Turmoil Tarnishes a Cherished Tradition | first=Ben | last=White | date=October 1, 2008 | access-date=May 12, 2010 | archive-date=March 10, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310223112/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/01bell.html?ref=business | url-status=live }}
Pyle was part of a country music group with actress Shawnee Smith called Smith & Pyle. The two actresses met while filming an ABC comedy pilot titled Traveling in Packs. The band started after Smith invited Pyle to join her in attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While stuck in traffic, Pyle talked about her dream to be a rock star and Smith agreed to form a band with her. Their first album, "It's OK to Be Happy", was released digitally through iTunes and Amazon.com in July 2008. The debut album was recorded in Joshua Tree, California at Rancho De La Luna and was produced by Chris Goss. The two actresses have also become business partners and formed their own record label called Urban Prairie Records, under which "It's OK to be Happy" was released. According to an interview Smith did with pretty-scary.net in August 2008, a Smith & Pyle television or webisode series might be in the works. Smith also mentioned the idea of a series on Fangoria radio with Dee Snider.{{cite web |url=http://www.fangoriaradio.com/Audio2.html |title=Shawnee Smith on Fangoria radio |publisher=Fangoriaradio.com |access-date=September 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107042400/http://www.fangoriaradio.com/Audio2.html |archive-date=November 7, 2008 }} Currently there are three videos posted on YouTube that show the making of the record. They also have a 10-minute "making of" video on Vimeo called Smith & Pyle: Desert Sessions.{{cite web |url=http://www.myspace.com/smithandpyle |title=Smith & Pyle Official MySpace Page |publisher=Myspace.com |access-date=September 8, 2010 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305113048/https://myspace.com/smithandpyle |url-status=live }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://smithandpyle.com |title=Smith & Pyle Official Website |publisher=Smithandpyle.com |access-date=September 8, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726095708/http://smithandpyle.com/ |archive-date=July 26, 2010 }}{{Self-published source|date=December 2012}}
Personal life
Pyle married wildlife naturalist Casey Anderson on September 12, 2008. The wedding was country-western themed and took place in Montana. Wedding guests included bandmate Shawnee Smith and comedian Steve Agee. Anderson's pet grizzly bear, Brutus, served as his best man in the ceremony.{{cite web |url=http://smithandpyle.com/2008/09/weddin-on-the-prairie/ |title=Smith & Pyle Blog, "Weddin' on the Prairie!" |work=Smithandpyle.com |date=12 September 2008 |access-date=September 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006011042/http://smithandpyle.com/2008/09/weddin-on-the-prairie/ |archive-date=October 6, 2011 |publisher=Urban Prairie, LLC}} Pyle and Anderson appeared in "Grizzly Dogs", the October 22, 2010, episode of Dog Whisperer, in which they sought the help of Cesar Millan to rehabilitate their dog.{{cite episode |series=Dog Whisperer |network=Nat Geo Wild |title=Grizzly Dogs |airdate=October 22, 2010 |season=7 |number=3}} Pyle confirmed their breakup in 2013.{{cn|date=April 2024}} She has one daughter.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/missi-pyle-rides-lifes-curves-to-cabaret-act-in-the-city/Content?oid=2536720 |title=Missi Pyle rides life's curves to cabaret act in The City |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |first=Robert |last=Sokol |date=6 August 2013 |access-date=25 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228071938/http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/missi-pyle-rides-lifes-curves-to-cabaret-act-in-the-city/Content?oid=2536720 |archive-date=28 December 2013}}{{cite web |title=Hi friends its me, Missi. Zooey, my daughter, and I met Duana and her gorgeous amazing family a few years ago at Knotts Berry Farm.|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C17w08MS3qn/ |website=instagram.com}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role !Notes |
|---|
| 1997
| Waitress | |
| rowspan=2|1999
| Trick | Actress with flowers | |
| Galaxy Quest
| Laliari | |
| rowspan=2|2001
| Alexandra Cabot | |
| Let It Snow
| Ily | |
| 2002
| Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House | Vera Murchins | |
| rowspan=4|2003
| Ashley | Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Fight |
| Exposed
| Amy | |
| BachelorMan
| Heather | |
| Big Fish
| Mildred | |
| rowspan=6|2004
| Roxanne | |
| data-sort-value="Fifty First Dates" | 50 First Dates
| Noreen |Cameo |
| Soul Plane
| Barbara Hunkee | |
| Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
| Fran Stalinovskovichdavidivitchskiy | |
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
| Zoo Keeper | |
| Meet Market
| Ericka | |
| rowspan=2|2005
| {{sortname|The|Civilization of Maxwell Bright}} | Cop | |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
| Scarlett Beauregarde | |
| rowspan=3|2006
| Peggy Braden | |
| Mojave Phone Booth
| Sarah | |
| Stormbreaker
| Nadia Vole | |
| rowspan=3|2007
| Live! | Plummy | |
| Entry Level
| Liz | |
| Feast of Love
| Agatha Smith | |
| rowspan=5|2008
| Lucy | |
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
| Raylene | |
| Visioneers
| Sahra | |
| American Crude
| Gigi | |
| Soccer Mom
| Wendy Handler/Coach Lorenzo | |
| rowspan=4|2009
| Charlene | |
| Still Waiting...
| Rocky Rhoades/Exotic dancer | |
| Taking Chances
| Faith Fishback | |
| data-sort-value="Fork in the Road, A" | A Fork in the Road
| Nola | |
| rowspan=2|2010
| Lida Griggs | |
| Miss Nobody
| Charmaine | |
| rowspan=2|2011
| {{sortname|The|Artist|dab=film}} | Constance | |
| {{sortname|A|Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song}}
| Gail Van Ravensway | |
| 2012
| Blair Schumacher | |
| rowspan=3|2013
| Bakersfield, Earth | Judy | |
| Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
| |
| Killing Vivian
| Megan | |
| rowspan=5|2014
| data-sort-value="Haunted House 2, A" | A Haunted House 2 | Noreen | |
| Just Before I Go
| Officer CT | |
| Gone Girl
| Ellen Abbott | |
| Kiss Me
| Pam | |
| Dragula
| Maggie | |
| rowspan=2|2015
| Michelle | |
| Hollywood Adventures
| Casting director | |
| rowspan=6|2016
| Herself / Mabel | |
| Captain Fantastic
| Ellen McCune | Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
| Slash
| Ronnie | |
| Emma's Chance
| Susan Peirce | |
| Pandemic
| Denise | |
| Miles
| Leslie Wayne | |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Mrs. Fowler | |
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
| Coach Webb | |
| rowspan=4|2018
| Traffik | Sally Marnes | |
| Nobody's Fool
| Lauren Meadows | |
| Miss Arizona
| Bev | |
| Grace
| Liz | |
| rowspan=2|2019
| Tina Snyder | |
| Ma
| Mercedes | |
| rowspan="3"| 2022
| Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse | Cythonna, Speaker of Nations (voice) | |
| Bring It On: Cheer or Die
| Principal Simmons | |
| data-sort-value="Moon and Back, The" | The Moon & Back
| Diane Gilbert | |
| rowspan="3"|2023
| Unseen |Carol | |
| If You Were the Last
| Megan Benson | |
| data-sort-value="Tourist's Guide to Love, A" | A Tourist's Guide to Love{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=2022-05-06 |title=Ben Feldman, Missi Pyle & More Round Out Cast Of Netflix's Romance 'A Tourist's Guide To Love' |url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/ben-feldman-missi-pyle-more-join-netflix-romance-a-tourists-guide-to-love-1235017537/ |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=Deadline |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211152249/https://deadline.com/2022/05/ben-feldman-missi-pyle-more-join-netflix-romance-a-tourists-guide-to-love-1235017537/ |url-status=live }}
| Mona | |
| 2025
| Julie | |
| TBA
| The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd | {{TBA}} | Filming |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=3|1999
| Beautiful woman | Episode: "The Final Frontier: Part 2" |
| data-sort-value="Drew Carey Show, The" | The Drew Carey Show
| Stacey | Episode: "Drew's Reunion" |
| Friends
| Hillary | Episode: "The One with Ross's Teeth" |
| 2000
| Suzanne | Episode: "Walter's Rib" |
| rowspan=4|2001
| Marcia Hooper | Episode: "Reach Out and Touch" |
| data-sort-value="Wayne Brady Show, The" | The Wayne Brady Show
| Various | 6 episodes |
| Roswell
| Windy Sommers | Episode: "Control" |
| data-sort-value="Tick, The" | The Tick
| Stacy Waxman | Episode: "Arthur Needs Space" |
| 2002
| Philly | Charise DuPree | Episode: "Mojo Rising" |
| 2003
| Frasier | Shannon Palmer | Episode: "Maris Returns" |
| 2004, 2010, 2011, 2015 | Miss Dolores Pasternak | 4 episodes |
| 2005
| Shelly Stoker | Episode: "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine" |
| 2006–2008
| Renee Winger | 3 episodes |
| 2007–2010
| data-sort-value="Sarah Silverman Program, The" | The Sarah Silverman Program | Scarlett Lacey | 4 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2007
| Heroes | Hope | 2 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Wedding Bells, The" | The Wedding Bells
| Amanda Pontell | Main role |
| 2008–2011
| Tracy / drunk girl / sorority girl | Voice; 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2008
| Teri Ranzino / Treena Morris | Episode: "Never the Bride" |
| Pushing Daisies
| Betty Bee | Episode: "Bzzzzzzzzz!" |
| 2009
| Numbers | Janet Galvin | Episode: "Ultimatum" |
| rowspan=3|2010
| Dr. Baylow | Episode: "The Time Warp" |
| Rizzoli & Isles
| Merch owner | Episode: "I Kissed a Girl" |
| data-sort-value="Life & Times of Tim, The" | The Life & Times of Tim
| Receptionist / Marcy / Nancy (voice) | 4 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2010–2011
| data-sort-value="Mentalist, The" | The Mentalist | Karen Cross | 2 episodes |
| $#*! My Dad Says
| Katie Palmer | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2|2011
| Kaye | Episode: "Mr. Bob's Toddler Kaleidoscope" |
| Family Guy
| Kitty Hawk woman (voice) | Episode: "Amish Guy" |
| 2012
| Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 | Angie Beckencort | Episode: "Whatever It Takes..." |
| rowspan=5|2013
| Rebecca Lionwek | Episode: "Auto Erotic" |
| 1600 Penn
| Sarah Harlan | Episode: "Frosting/Nixon" |
| data-sort-value="Two Broke Girls" | 2 Broke Girls
| Charity Channing | Episode: "And Not-So-Sweet Charity" |
| Warehouse 13
| Lily Abbott | Episode: "The Big Snag" |
| data-sort-value="Mindy Project, The" | The Mindy Project
| Nancy | Episode: "Mindy Lahiri Is a Racist" |
| rowspan=2|2013–2014
| Various roles | 3 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Exes, The" | The Exes
| Sabrina/Julie | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=4|2014
| data-sort-value="Crazy Ones, The" | The Crazy Ones | Melora | Episode: "Dead and Improved" |
| Jennifer Falls
| Dina Simac | Main role |
| Partners
| Biffy Saint Murray | Episode: "Let's Have a Simple Gwedding" |
| Infomercials
| Jan Jeremy | Episode: "Goth Fitness" |
| rowspan=5|2015
| Canadian Joy | 2 episodes |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
| Trudy Malco | Episode: "Granting Immunity" |
| Z Nation
| Bernadette | Episode: "Rozwell" |
| Where the Bears Are
| Maggie Dexter | 3 episodes |
| TripTank
| Woman / Crap Girl / Anna (voice) | 3 episodes |
| 2015–2018
| Celery Bellacourt / Celery Savoy | Recurring role |
| rowspan=7|2016
| Gert Buckwald (voice) | Main role |
| data-sort-value="Soul Man, The" | The Soul Man
| Alicia | Recurring role |
| Sing It!
| Marcy | Main role |
| Lady Dynamite
| Carol Simples | Episode: "A Vaginismus Miracle" |
| Major Crimes
| Tina Walker | Episode: "Off the Wagon" |
| Mary + Jane
| Feminist mobile librarian | Episode: "Girl on Gurl" |
| Notorious
| Callie Connors | Episode: "Kept and Broken" |
| rowspan=4|2017
| Lily | 2 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Catch, The" | The Catch
| Chloe Jackson | Episode: "The Bad Girl" |
| Mom
| Natasha | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| One Mississippi
| Cassandra Night | Episode: "Who Do You Think You Are?" |
| 2017–2018
| Mary Jane | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| data-sort-value="Goldbergs, The" | The Goldbergs | Madame Charbenaux | Episode: "1990-Something" |
| Impulse
| Cleo Coles | Main role |
| rowspan="5" | 2019
| Christa Gruhle | Episode: "Love" |
| Bob Hearts Abishola
| Liz | Episode: "Square Hamburger, Round Buns" |
| data-sort-value="Unicorn, The" | The Unicorn
| Ava | Episode: "Wade Delayed" |
| Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas
| Chrissy | TV film |
| To Tell the Truth
| Celebrity Panelist | Season 4, episode 11 |
| 2020
| Karen Kintner |
| rowspan="5" | 2021
| Nicole | Episode: "Hearts Before Parts" |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks
| Cardassian interrogator (voice) | Episode: "Strange Energies" |
| data-sort-value="Tale Dark & Grimm, A" | A Tale Dark & Grimm
| The Rain / Widow Fischer (voice) | 4 episodes |
| Y: The Last Man
| Roxanne | 5 episodes |
| data-sort-value="Big Leap, The" | The Big Leap
| Tonya Lovewell | 2 episodes |
| rowspan="4" | 2022
|Ms. McNamara (voice) |2 episodes |
| Archer
|Dr. Malory Lacania (voice) |Episode: "Out of Network" |
| data-sort-value="Hollywood Christmas, A" | A Hollywood Christmas
| Theresa Frost | TV film |
| Celebrity Beef
| Herself | Episode: "Critical Designer vs. Critically Acclaimed" |
| rowspan="2" | 2023
|Ms. Crawford |Episode: "A Hui Hou (Until We Meet Again)" |
| Harlan Coben's Shelter
|Hannah |7 episodes |
| 2024–2025
| The Sex Lives of College Girls | Tracey Baker | 2 episodes |
=Web=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2012
| Greetings from Home | Sue | 12 episodes |
| 2013–14
| Cleaners | Eileen | Main role, 18 episodes |
| 2016
|The Lottery | Teresa Yaw | A Short Film On Shane Dawson TV |
=Appearances=
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| rowspan=2|2017
|Play Dodgeball with Ben Stiller |Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky |Omaze Charity Dodgeball |
| Run
|Nurse |Music video by Foo Fighters |
Stage credits
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1996
| 900 Oneonta | Burning Jewel | Circle Repertory Theatre |
| 2008
| Gretchen | Longacre Theatre |
| 2012–2013
| Bare | Sister Joan | New World Stages |
Discography
=Albums=
- It's OK to Be Happy, Smith & Pyle (2008)
=Singles=
- "One Night Stand", Smith & Pyle (2010)
- "Rafael", Smith & Pyle (2010)
References
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External links
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