Judy Greer is an American actress, and author, best known for portraying a string of supporting
characters, including Kitty Sanchez on the Fox/Netflix series Arrested Development and
Cheryl Tunt on the animated comedy series Archer. Greer has had a supporting role in
a number of romantic comedy films, including The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, 27 Dresses
and Love and Other Drugs. She also had a supporting role in the 2011 film The Descendants. In
2011, Greer began hosting an online series of workout videos called Reluctantly Healthy.
2014 saw the publication of her first book, I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions
of a Co-Star.
Early life Greer was born in Detroit, Michigan on July
20, 1975 to Rich Evans, a mechanical engineer, and Mollie Ann Evans, a hospital administrator
and former nun. An only child, she grew up in Redford Township and Livonia. She was raised
Catholic. Greer attended Churchill High School and Bunny Sanford's School of Dance in Livonia.
In 1997 she graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Career Greer had a recurring role on the Fox comedy
series Arrested Development, playing Kitty Sanchez in 10 episodes total and appearing
in each of the series' three original seasons. In an August 2009 interview, Greer said that
she is most recognized for this role. She had supporting roles in Jawbreaker, The Wedding
Planner, Adaptation, 13 Going on 30, The Village, Elizabethtown, 27 Dresses, and Love Happens.
Greer has made guest appearances on Just Shoot Me!, CSI: Miami, My Name Is Earl, Two and
a Half Men, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Californication, ER, House, Modern Family,
The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, and Warren the Ape. She took on a starring
role in the ABC sitcom Miss Guided, but it was canceled in its first season. She also
starred in the indie satire Visioneers. In April 2008, Greer appeared as a yoga instructor
in the "Get a Mac" ad series alongside John Hodgman and Justin Long. Greer starred in
a CBS sitcom entitled Mad Love, which premiered in February 2011 as a midseason replacement
2010–2011. The show was canceled after the first season.
Greer is also a voice actor, voicing the character of Cheryl on the animated comedy series Archer,
a character which has been compared to her role on Arrested Development, and the character
of Wendy Park on the stop-motion animated sitcom Glenn Martin, DDS. Greer currently
portrays Bridget Schmidt, Walden Schmidt's ex-wife on Two and a Half Men. She previously
played Myra, a love interest for Charlie Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, and the sister
of Herb Melnick, Ryan Stiles' character, on two episodes of the show in 2007.
In November 2011, Greer was honored with the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award at
the Denver Film Festival, where two films featuring Greer were in the festival's programming,
including a red carpet screening of Alexander Payne's The Descendants and the Jay and Mark
Duplass' Jeff, Who Lives at Home. She is the first actress to be honored with the award.
She played gym teacher Miss Desjardin in the 2013 film adaptation, Carrie, starring alongside
Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, and played female chimp Cornelia in the sequel
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. In April 2014, Greer joined the cast for Jurassic World.
In 2014, Greer made her directorial debut, with a short film for AOL, Quiet Time.
Greer stars alongside Nat Faxon in the upcoming FX comedy series Married, set to begin airing
on July 17, 2014. Personal life
Greer is married to Dean E. Johnsen, an executive producer of Real Time with Bill Maher.
In 2014, Greer told Glamour, "I had been wanting to try and learn how to meditate, and I did
research on the different types of meditation. TM seemed the easiest, and I liked that it
wasn’t religious in any way." Filmography
Film
Television Awards/Nominations
Published works Greer, Judy. I Don't Know What You Know Me
From: Confessions of a Co-Star. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385537889.
References
External links Judy Greer at the Internet Movie Database
Judy Greer on Twitter