Alison Brie

Alison Brie (born December 29, 1982)  is an American actress best known for portraying  Annie Edison on the NBC sitcom  Community and  Trudy Campbell on the AMC drama  Mad Men. She has also starred in movies, including the 2011  slasher film  Scream 4 and the 2012 comedy  The Five-Year Engagement. ==Early life ==

Brie was born Alison Brie Schermerhorn in Hollywood, California. Her mother, Joanne (née Brenner), works at a non-profit child care agency called Para los Niños ("For the Children"), and her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. Her mother is Jewish and her father has Dutch, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Brie has stated that, while being raised by her divorced parents, she occasionally attended her father's "Christian-Hindu hybrid church", while her mother "would always make sure we knew we were Jewish". Brie began her career acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor's in theater in 2005. Prior to becoming a television actress, Brie had worked as a clown at birthday parties, and performed in theater in California.

For a time, Brie studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. ==Career ==

One of Brie's first television roles was the minor character Nina, a novice hairdresser, on Hannah Montana. She then went on to star in the web series My Alibi, and was chosen for the role ofTrudy Campbell in Mad Men. She is also a main cast member on Community as Annie Edison.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On April 15, 2010, Brie co-hosted G4's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Show! Attack of the Show!]''. Brie has also appeared for a short segment on the G4 show, Web Soup. She had a role in the 2010 film Montana Amazon.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Brie made Maxim's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 and Maxim's 2011 Hot 100 list at number 49. She was also voted the 56th sexiest woman in the world by FHM readers in 2013.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Brie has had several major movie roles. She starred in the 2011 horror film Scream 4, as Sidney Prescott's assistant. She appeared alongside Jason Segel, Emily Blunt and Chris Pratt in The Five-Year Engagement, which was released April 27, 2012.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She has a voice acting role in The Lego Movie, which is scheduled for release for spring 2014.