Alison Brie
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Schermerhorn, known professionally as Alison Brie, is an American actress. She portrayed Annie Edison in the NBC and Yahoo! sitcom Community, Trudy Campbell in the AMC drama Mad Men and the voice of Diane Nguyen on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman. She starred in several films, such as Scream 4, The Five-Year Engagement, The Lego Movie, Get Hard, Sleeping with Other Peopleand How to Be Single...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth29 December 1982
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.
What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?
I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.
If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.
A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.
My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.
Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.
I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.
I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
Money means better meals at better places.
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.''