Mary Lynn Rajskub
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| Mary Lynn Rajskub | |
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 Mary Lynn Rajskub at the 2007 Waterfront Film Festival |
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| Born | June 22, 1971 Trenton, Michigan, USA |
| Other name(s) | Mary-Lynn Rajskub |
Mary Lynn Rajskub (sometimes credited as Marylynn Rajskub) (pronounced /ˈraɪskʌb/ "RICE-cub") (born June 22, 1971) is an American actress, artist, and stand-up comedian of Czech and Irish descent.
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[edit] Biography
Born and raised in Trenton, Michigan, Rajskub later moved to Los Angeles where she became one of the original cast members of Mr. Show, and also had roles on The Larry Sanders Show, Veronica's Closet, the US version of The Sketch Show, NewsRadio, and 24.
During her time on Mr. Show, she was also dating David Cross, leaving the show when they broke up after after the second season.
She has since appeared in more dramatic roles, most notably her role as CTU tech analyst Chloe O'Brian on 24, which she joined in 2003 at the start of the show's third season. Her character was a hit with viewers and critics and was one of the few cast members to return in the show's fourth season. After being a regular guest star for two seasons, Rajskub became a main cast member in the show's fifth season. She is now lead female, with top billing second only to Kiefer Sutherland. Rajskub and Sutherland appeared briefly as their 24 characters in a 2007 episode[which?] of the FOX TV animated series The Simpsons.
She also appeared in Kelsey Grammer's The Sketch Show on Fox Television, King of Queens as a character named "Priscilla", a waitress at a pirate-themed kiddie restaurant in an episode of Newsradio ("The Secret of Management"), and in numerous films including Mysterious Skin, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude, Where's My Car?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, music videos for Beck and Weezer, as well as portraying a blind girl in the film Road Trip.
She is also a skilled guitar player and was part of a comic duo (with Karen Kilgariff) called Girls Guitar Club. In 2006, she made a cameo appearance in an episode[which?] of Gilmore Girls where she played a troubadour looking for her big break. (Rajskub had previously appeared on Gilmore Girls as the female lead in A Film by Kirk, a short film made by the character Kirk Gleason).
Rajskub has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program. She has an educational background as a painter, having attended the San Francisco Art Institute.
She has been nominated twice for a Screen Actors Guild Award; once in 2005, and again in 2007 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
[edit] Personal life
Rajskub worked as a waitress in a Hard Rock Cafe and as a ticket-taker at the Beverly Center movie theater before becoming an actress.
Rajskub and her live-in boyfriend Matthew Rolph, 27, a personal trainer, are expecting their first child together at the end of the summer.[1] She referred to this child as "the alien inside her" on the Larry and Willy show on Jack FM, Vancouver, Canada, on February 28, 2008.
She was once mistaken for a prostitute shortly after finishing a role in the Kirstie Alley sitcom Veronica's Closet.[2]
[edit] Selected filmography
- Sunshine Cleaning (2008) - Lynn
- American Fork (2007) - Peggy Orbison
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Pageant Assistant Pam
- Firewall (2006) - Janet Stone
- Mysterious Skin (2004) - Avalyn Friesen
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) - Reena Giuliani
- Sweet Home Alabama (2002) - Dorothea
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - Elizabeth
- The Anniversary Party (2001) - Mary-Lynn
- Storytelling (2001) - Melinda ('Fiction')
- Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Zelmina - Cult Member
- Road Trip (2000) - Blind Brenda
- Man on the Moon (1999) - Friday's Mary
- Magnolia (1999) (voice) - Janet, Frank's Assistant
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