Jaime Pressly is an American actress best known for playing comedic roles on TV sitcoms. After starting out as a model, she got her first movie role in ‘Mercenary’ (1996). She was then cast in movies like ‘Poison Ivy: The New Seduction’ (1997) and ‘Can't Hardly Wait’ (1998).
The actress made her TV debut as part of the main cast in ‘Push’ (1998). She then starred on shows like ‘Mortal Kombat: Conquest’ (1998–1999), ‘Jack & Jill’ (1999–2001), and made guest appearances on ‘Going to California’ (2001), ‘Charmed’ (2002), and ‘Entourage’ (2005).Jamie Pressly landed her most famous role as Joy Turner in ‘My Name is Earl’ (2005–2009) and won two ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ nominations.She has also appeared on ‘Hot in Cleveland’ (2014)and has a recurring role on ‘Mom’ (2014–present).Â
Jamie Pressly has enjoyed mixed success in movies. ‘Not Another Teen Movie’ (2001), ‘DOA: Dead or Alive’ (2006), ‘Horton Hears a Who!’ (2008), and ‘I Love You, Man’ (2009), are her best and highest grossing movies. ‘Demon Island’ (2002), ‘Beauty & the Briefcase’ (2010), ‘Finders Keepers’ (2014), and ‘A Haunted House 2’ (2014), were commercial and critical failures.