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Jamie Elizabeth Pressly was born on July 30th 1977 in Kinston, North Carolina. Jaime spent eleven years studying gymnastics and dancing. She attended Costa Mesa High School in California. This is where her mother moved to during while in the process of her divorce from Jaime’s father. Jaime was legally emancipated from her parents at the age of fifteen. She attended a modeling assignment in Japan. It was a case of her having to be emancipated from her parents to be able to attend on her own.
Jaime is an American actress and model and is best known for her role as Joy in the situation comedy My Name is Earl. Her role in this series has seen her nominated for an Emmy for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category in 2006 and 2007. She won the award in 2007 and has been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe for this role also.
Jaime had a movie role as Violet in Poison Ivy: the New Seduction and in a television series Push she played Nikki. There have also been roles as Mika and an undead assassin in the Mortal Kombat Conquest series. She played Audrey in the television drama Jack and Jill. Some of her other roles include starring in the independent film Poor While Trash and in the hit Not Another Teen Movie.
Jaime became the spokesperson for Liz Claiborne Cosmetics and the fragrance Lucky you in 2001. Ranked number eight in the Stuff Magazine 102 Sexiest Women in the World in 2002, she has a high public profile. Jaime played a guest role on the series Charmed and Alyssa Milano played a guest role in the series My Name is Earl. Other guest roles have included Night Man, Silk Stalkings, The Twilight Zone and Becker. You will also see Jaime in an episode of Punk’d. It was 2005 that saw Jaime win the role of Joy Turner on My Name is Earl.
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Jaime Pressly was first famous for being a model and later in her career she became an actress and did several different TV shows and movies. She is mostly known as the girls from the smash hit TV series My Name Is Earl where Jaime plays the part of Earl’s trailer trash ex wife who is named Joy. In this series Joy is more of a problem to the main character has with all of hi karma fixing. This is one thing that she does well besides being a con artist and thief of varies things however now that she has a few children and a husband that is nice to her she has settled down and sticks mostly to causing trouble. She wins some awards for being best supporting actress for this show which wins some awards for being best sit com on TV. These awards presented themselves in 2006 and 2007 in some of the normal award winning ceremonies that Hollywood hold.
Jaime is a North Carolina girl who is a very stereotypical type cast of the blonde southern girls who have a language of their own. In 1997 she was the star of Poison Ivy which many people have heard of even if they will not admit that they have watched it. The next year she played a role in the Mortal Combat film alongside a few other good actors and actresses. She is the perfect stereotype for the movie Poor White Trash as well as being another trailer girl in the movie Joe Dirt. In the Charmed series about four witches living in America we got to see her play one of the bad witches which in a way suits her other roles. This was a two part episode where everything was not as it seemed leading to a moment of intensity in the movie that was best left in suspense. The My Name is Earl Series which she was a main character in started in 2005 and finished up several series later in 2009. Since it was such a comical series many people will remember her from this show as well as the other actors.