Jaime Pressly's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) My Name Is Earl Joy Turner Mom Jill Jack & Jill Audrey Grif… Jennifer Falls Jennifer Do… The Starlet Jaime Pressly Push Nikki Lang

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Jaime Elizabeth Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards (winning one) as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive and I Love You, Man.

After growing up in North Carolina, Pressly spent almost 11 years training in gymnastics and eventually entered the modeling world. Pressly can be seen on the cover of an older Teen Magazine, and has modeled throughout the United States, Italy, and Japan.


TRIVIA:

• Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15.
• First person to appear on multiple covers of "Stuff" magazine
• Struggled with bulimia.
• Ranked as #87 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
• (July 2000) Became a spokes-model for 'Liz Claiborne' (qv) Cosmetics and will advertise the company's new fragrance "Lucky You" starting September 2000.
• Ranked #8 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
• On the December 10, 2001 episode of the 'Howard Stern (I)' (qv) Radio Show, when describing Howard's not-so-great looks, she said "You got slapped by the 'jew stick.'.
• Nicknamed "Martha Jr." because she is a good gardener, a neat freak and loves cooking.