Alison Brie: An actress with charm and grit for days, Alison Brie is on the rise.
Brie is a great comedic actress and even better dramatic actress. This star is quickly becoming one of the most versatile in Hollywood.
Alison Brie has been on the rise since she first appeared on Community, but it’s been her recent roles in Get Hard and How to Be Single that have really made her a household name.
In addition to her work on The Five-Year Engagement and Scream 4, Alison Brie was seen in the indie comedy Save the Date, opposite Lizzy Caplan. She also appeared as Trudy Campbell in AMC’s Emmy Award-winning drama Mad Men and starred in Netflix’s critically acclaimed series GLOW, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards this year.
Alison Brie: An actress with charm and grit for days, Alison Brie is on the rise.
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Alison Brie: An actress with charm and grit for days, Alison Brie is on the rise.
Alison Brie’s acting career started in childhood; she performed in local community productions of Annie and The Wizard of Oz, but it wasn’t until college that she considered taking it seriously. After graduation, Alison tried her hand at a number of jobs – production assistant, casting intern – before landing a role on Mad Men. She hasn’t stopped working since.
I didn’t want to be one of those people who moves to Los Angeles to act but starts waiting tables because they can’t get acting work. I wanted to give myself enough time to figure out how to make my way in the world first.
It’s heartening to hear an actor with Alison’s success talk about the uncertainty of her early career; her humble attitude is reflected in her work as well. Alison has gravitated towards strong female roles on television shows like Community and Mad Men; she’s also doing great work in films like The Five-Year Engagement and Sleeping with Other People, which co-stars Jason Sudeikis and opens this weekend. Here are some highlights from our interview:
The first time I saw Alison Brie, she was riding a mechanical bull at a party in Los Angeles. This is not an uncommon sight in Los Angeles. It’s just that I wasn’t at a party in Los Angeles. I was watching an episode of Community, the television show on which Brie plays Annie Edison, a former straight-A high school student who dropped out of college and then returned to school to work towards a degree at the fictional Greendale Community College, where she meets and befriends Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), Troy Barnes (Donald Glover), Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs), Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) and Annie’s eventual boyfriend, Vaughn Miller (Eric Christian Olsen).
In the episode “Contemporary American Poultry,” Abed has taken over the campus chicken finger trade with cold-blooded efficiency. Jeff convinces Abed to give him some of the profits, which he uses to throw his study group a housewarming party. Unfortunately for them, Abed has decided that he will only give them chicken fingers if they work for him. What follows is one of the best episodes of television in recent memory. Basically everyone works for
She’s currently starring in the new Netflix series “Glow,” a fictionalized version of the 1980s women’s wrestling league. Her character, Ruth, is an awkward but determined actress who joins a ragtag group of female wrestlers and gets her first big break.
Brie spoke with Business Insider about her career, her role models, and how she landed her dream job on “GLOW.”
