Alison Brie

Alison Brie Schermerhorn is an American actress, producer, and writer. She is widely known for her roles in television and film, including playing Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men, Annie Edison in the sitcom Community, Diane Nguyen in the animated series BoJack Horseman, and Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW.

Brie was born on December 29, 1982, in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Her mother worked at a non-profit childcare agency and her father was a musician and entertainment reporter. She attended South Pasadena High School, graduating in 2001, and later earned a bachelor's degree in theater from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005. Her college studies included a year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. She began acting onstage at the Jewish Community Center in Southern California.

Her early television career included a guest appearance as Nina on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana in 2006. She gained recognition playing Trudy Campbell on Mad Men from 2007 to 2015, winning a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. From 2009 to 2015, Brie achieved a breakthrough starring as Annie Edison on Community, earning nominations for a Critics' Choice Television Award and winning an Entertainment Weekly Award.

Brie expanded her voice and television work by starring in Netflix's BoJack Horseman from 2014 to 2020 as Diane Nguyen and other characters. From 2017 to 2019, she played Ruth Wilder in Netflix's GLOW, for which she received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Her television career also includes appearances on Dr. Thorne, Roar, Rick and Morty, and Apples Never Fall.

In film, Brie featured in projects such as Scream 4, The Five-Year Engagement, The Lego Movie film series, Get Hard, Sleeping with Other People, How to Be Single, The Little Hours, The Disaster Artist, The Post, Promising Young Woman, and Happiest Season. She has also taken on writing and producing roles, co-writing and starring in Horse Girl, Spin Me Round, and Somebody I Used to Know. Her projects also extend to the 2025 supernatural body horror film Together alongside her husband, Dave Franco, whom she married in 2017.