Cheryl Ruth Hines is an American actress, comedian, producer and director, known for
her role as Larry David's wife Cheryl on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which she was nominated
for two Emmy Awards.
She also starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory.
In 2009, she made her directorial debut with Serious Moonlight.
She is also a poker enthusiast with career winnings totaling $50,000.
Early life Hines was born Cheryl Ruth Hines in Miami
Beach, Florida, a daughter of James and Rosemary Hines.
Part of her family came from Frostproof, Florida, but she grew up in Tallahassee, where she
was a member of the Young Actors Theatre throughout high school.
Hines also attended Lively Technical Center and Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee.
She was raised Catholic and has two brothers and a sister.
She attended West Virginia University and Florida State University before graduating
from the University of Central Florida.
Career Before getting her break in Hollywood, Hines
worked as a waitress, television reporter, and telephone operator, as well as personal
assistant to Rob Reiner, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Though Reiner did not play a critical role in her career, he would watch her shows when
she began acting.
She would guest appear on TV shows such as Swamp Thing and Unsolved Mysteries.
Hines began her acting career by doing improvisational comedy at The Groundlings Theater.
Among the people she studied with was Lisa Kudrow.
She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well when working on HBO's
Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's fictional wife, Cheryl.
The show is written using the retroscripting technique, in which the plot outlines are
generally and loosely drawn, and the individual actors improvise to create the dialogue.
"When the show first came out, people from Tallahassee thought, 'Well, maybe Cheryl got
married'", she recalls of the show's initial reception.
"Sometimes, I do feel like I live two lives."
Hines received Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for
her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2003 and 2006.
Speaking about being cast on the show, Hines has said that "Until Curb, I’d done small
roles, really small roles.
They wanted to cast an unknown actress.
It worked in my favor that I hadn’t done anything.
It changed my life."
In movies, she was one of the stars of RV opposite Robin Williams, Waitress with Keri
Russell, and the 2008 mockumentary comedy The Grand, a spoof of the World Series of
Poker.
Her 2009 directorial debut Serious Moonlight stars Meg Ryan with a script by the late Adrienne
Shelly, Hines's co-star in Waitress.
During the 2009-2010 season of Brothers and Sisters, she guest-starred as Kitty Walker
McCallister's campaign manager, Buffy.
It was announced in July 2010 that Hines would be joining the cast of the new Nickelodeon
films based on their series The Fairly Oddparents, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner!
and A Fairly Odd Christmas.
She served as Wanda, the main character's godmother.
Hines serves as the executive producer for the 2010 reality series School Pride, which
follows the renovation of a different school each week.
Hines starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory and in We Need Help a web series
aired on Yahoo Screen.
On January 29, 2014, Hines received the 2,516th star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Personal life and charities Hines married Paul Young, founder of the management
firm Principato-Young, on December 30, 2002.
They have one child, daughter Catherine Rose Young, b.
March 8, 2004.
On July 20, 2010, Hines and Young filed papers for their divorce after nearly eight years
of marriage.
Upon discovering that her nephew was born with cerebral palsy, Hines contacted United
Cerebral Palsy for answers and resources.
Over time, she became involved with UCP and has used her celebrity status to help elevate
its visibility.
Hines serves on the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy.
In December 2011 Hines began dating Robert F. Kennedy, Jr..
They announced their engagement late April 2014 and were married on August 2, 2014.
Filmography Awards and nominations
References
External links Cheryl Hines at the Internet Movie Database
Cheryl Hines interviewed by Adam Carolla Cheryl Hines - Meet the Grand Marshal of the
Springtime Tallahassee Grande Parade