Early life

Brie was born in Hollywood, California. Her mother, Joanne (née Brenner), works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit child care agency, and her father, (Charles) Terry Schermerhorn (a.k.a. Terry Charles), is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. She has a sister, Lauren.

Brie's 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 a "Christian-Hindu hybrid church", the Self-Realization Fellowship, with her father. However, her mother "would always make sure we knew we were Jewish".

Brie began 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. For a time, she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Brie worked as a clown at birthday parties and performed in theater in California.

Career

One of Brie's first television roles was as Nina, a novice hairdresser, on Hannah Montana. She went on to star in the web series My Alibi and was chosen for the role of Trudy Campbell in Mad Men. From 2009 to 2015, she portrayed Annie Edison on the NBC (and later Yahoo! Screen) sitcom Community.

In April 2010, Brie co-hosted an episode of Attack of the Show! and appeared in a short segment on Web Soup. She appeared in the 2010 film Montana Amazon. Brie made Maxim magazine's 2010 Hot 100 list at number 99 and appeared at number 49 in their 2011 list. She was voted the 56th sexiest woman in the world by FHM readers in 2013. She was also voted the 2nd most desirable woman in the world by Askmen readers in 2014.

Brie starred in several major film roles, including Sidney Prescott's assistant in the 2011 horror film Scream 4, and appeared in the 2012 comedy film The Five-Year Engagement. She voiced Unikitty in The Lego Movie (2014), and voiced a character in an episode of the long-running adult animation series American Dad!, which aired during their 10th season. In 2015, she starred with Jason Sudekis in Leslye Headland's romantic comedy film Sleeping with Other People and played Will Ferrell's character's fiancée in Get Hard. In 2016, Brie starred as Lucy in the romantic comedy film How to Be Single.

In June 2014, Brie joined the cast of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, which debuted on August 22. Over the first two seasons, she has voiced a variety of characters, including main character Diane Nguyen and recurring character Vincent Adultman. Alison also appeared on Lip Sync Battle and won against Will Arnett.

Personal life

Brie has been dating actor Dave Franco since 2012. On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Stolen Poem	Alice	Short film
2007	Dickie Smalls: From Shame to Fame	Mya
2007	Born	Mary Elizabeth
2008	Salvation, Texas	Lisa Salter	Short film
2008	Parasomnia	Darcy
2008	Coverup, TheThe Coverup	Grace
2008	Buddy 'n' Andy	Michelle	Short film
2009	Us One Night	Alyson	Short film
2010	Home Front, TheThe Home Front	Hannah	Short film
2010	Raspberry Magic	Ms. Bradlee
2010	Montana Amazon	Ella Dunderhead
2011	Scream 4	Rebecca Walters
2012	Save the Date	Beth
2012	Five-Year Engagement, TheThe Five-Year Engagement	Suzie Barnes-Eilhauer
2013	Kings of Summer, TheThe Kings of Summer	Heather Toy
2014	Lego Movie, TheThe Lego Movie	Unikitty	Voice role
2014	Search Party	Elizabeth
2015	Sleeping with Other People	Lainey
2015	Get Hard	Alissa
2015	No Stranger Than Love	Lucy Sherrington
2016	Joshy	Rachel
2016	How to Be Single	Lucy
2016	Get a Job	Tanya
2016	The Masterpiece	Amber	In post-production
2016	Headhunter's Calling, TheThe Headhunter's Calling		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Hannah Montana	Nina	Episode: "It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To"
2007-2015	Mad Men	Gertrude "Trudy" Campbell	36 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2008	Deadliest Lesson, TheThe Deadliest Lesson	Amber	Television film
2009-2015	Community	Annie Edison	110 episodes Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Supporting Actress
2011	Robot Chicken	Martha Stewart / vampire lifeguard (voices)	Episode: "The Godfather of the Bride 2"
2012	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Joanie	Episode: "Sabbath-tage"
2012	American Dad!	Lindsay (voice)	Episode: "Adventures in Hayleysitting"
2013	High School USA!	Miss Temple (voice)	Episode: "Choices"
2013	Axe Cop	Beautiful Girly Bobs (voice)	Episode: "The Dumb List"
2014	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Herself	Episode: "Alison Brie Wears a Black Mesh Top & Mini-Skirt"
2014-present	BoJack Horseman	Diane Nguyen / Vincent Adultman / Joelle Clarke / various voices	24 episodes
2016	Teachers	Lauren Lark	Episode: "Pilot"; also executive producer
2016	Doctor Thorne	Miss Martha Dunstable	3 episodes

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	My Alibi	Rebecca Fuller	14 episodes
2009	Hot Sluts	Amber	5 episodes
2012	Sketchy	Meg	Episode: "You Got Retweeted"
2013	ArScheerio Paul Show, TheThe ArScheerio Paul Show	Madonna	Episode: "Madonna & Rosie O'Donnell"

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2015	Lego Dimensions	Unikitty
2016	Marvel Avengers Academy	Black Widow

[ Source: Wikipedia ]