Early life

Hines was born Cheryl Ruth Hines in Miami Beach, Florida, a daughter of James and Rosemary Hines.

Part of her family came from Frostproof, Florida, but she grew up in Tallahassee, where she was a member of the Young Actors Theatre throughout high school. Hines also attended Lively Technical Center and Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee. She was raised Catholic and has two brothers and a sister. She attended West Virginia University and Florida State University before graduating from the University of Central Florida.

Career

Before getting her break in Hollywood, Hines worked as a waitress, television reporter, and telephone operator, as well as personal assistant to Rob Reiner, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Though Reiner did not play a critical role in her career, he would watch her shows when she began acting. She has had guest appearances on television shows such as Swamp Thing and Unsolved Mysteries.

Hines began her acting career by doing improvisational comedy at The Groundlings Theater. Among the people she studied with was Lisa Kudrow. She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well when working on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's fictional wife, Cheryl. The show is written using the retroscripting technique, in which the plot outlines are generally and loosely drawn, and the individual actors improvise to create the dialogue.

"When the show first came out, people from Tallahassee thought, 'Well, maybe Cheryl got married'", she recalls of the show's initial reception. "Sometimes, I do feel like I live two lives." Hines received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2003 and 2006. Speaking about being cast on the show, Hines has said that "Until Curb, I’d done small roles, really small roles. They wanted to cast an unknown actress. It worked in my favor that I hadn’t done anything. It changed my life."

In movies, she was one of the stars of RV opposite Robin Williams, Waitress with Keri Russell, and the 2008 mockumentary comedy The Grand, a spoof of the World Series of Poker. Her 2009 directorial debut Serious Moonlight stars Meg Ryan with a script by the late Adrienne Shelly, Hines's co-star in Waitress.

During the 2009-2010 season of Brothers and Sisters, she guest-starred as Kitty Walker McCallister's campaign manager, Buffy. It was announced in July 2010 that Hines would be joining the cast of the new Nickelodeon films based on their series The Fairly Oddparents, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner! and A Fairly Odd Christmas. She played Wanda, the main character's (Timmy's) godmother.

Hines serves as the executive producer for the 2010 reality series School Pride, which follows the renovation of a different school each week. Hines starred as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory and in We Need Help a web series aired on Yahoo Screen.

On January 29, 2014, Hines received the 2,516th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Personal life and charities

Hines married Paul Young, founder of the management firm Principato-Young, on December 30, 2002. They have one child, daughter Catherine Rose Young, b. March 8, 2004. On July 20, 2010, Hines and Young filed papers for their divorce after nearly eight years of marriage.

Upon discovering that her nephew was born with cerebral palsy, Hines contacted United Cerebral Palsy for answers and resources. Over time, she became involved with UCP and has used her celebrity status to help elevate its visibility. Hines serves on the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy. Hines and her family won $25,000 for UCP on the July 12, 2015 episode of Celebrity Family Feud.

In December 2011 Hines began dating activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. They announced their engagement late April 2014 and were married on August 2, 2014.

Filmography

Film and television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Swamp Thing	Louise Brenner	Episode: "Heart of the Mantis"
1996	Cheap Curry and Calculus	Sheila	Short film
1997	Unsolved Mysteries	Sharon Berman (Ashely's mother)	Episode: "9.18"
1998	Wayans Bros., TheThe Wayans Bros.	Helen	Episode: "Six Degrees of Marlon"
	Suddenly Susan	Debbie	Episode: "Poetry in Notion"
1999	Suddenly Susan	Marla	Episode: "The Cheerleaders"
	Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm	Cheryl David	TV movie
2000	Friends	Woman #2	Episode: "The One with Rachel's Sister"
2000-2011	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Cheryl David	Main Role; 70 episodes
2002	So Little Time		Episode: "The Job"
	Everybody Loves Raymond	Lauren Williamson	Episode: "Annoying Kid"
2003	Reno 911!	Trailer Park Lady	Episode: "Terrorist Training: Part 1"
	Tale of Two Wives, AA Tale of Two Wives	Rose Goodman	TV movie
	Wanda at Large	Dr. Linda	Episode: "Did Wanda Say a Four Letter Word?"
2004	Along Came Polly	Catering Manager
2004-2005	Father of the Pride	Kate (voice)	14 episodes
2005	Cake	Roxanne
	Herbie: Fully Loaded	Sally
	Our Very Own	Sally Crowder
2006	Scrubs	Paige Cox	Episode: "My New God"
	Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas	Professor Adams
	RV	Jamie Munro
	Keeping Up with the Steins	Casey Nudelman
2007	Waitress	Becky
	Jack's Big Music Show	Sudsy Bubblestein	Episode: "Mel's Bath Day"
	Goodnight Vagina	Meg March	Short film
	Grand, TheThe Grand	Lainie Schwartzman
2008	Hollywood Residential	herself
	Henry Poole Is Here	Meg Wyatt
	Bart Got a Room	Beth Stein
	Space Chimps	Luna (voice)
2009	All in the Bunker	Eva Braun	Short film
	Hannah Montana	Catherine York	Episode: "What I Don't Like About You"
	Labor Pains	Lisa DePardo
	In the Motherhood	Jane	7 episodes
	Ugly Truth, TheThe Ugly Truth	Georgia
2010	Legend of Secret Pass, TheThe Legend of Secret Pass	Nitika (voice)
	Wright vs. Wrong	Keri Daly	TV movie
	Love Bites	Kristen Lerner	Episode: "TMI"
	Super Hero Squad Show, TheThe Super Hero Squad Show	Stardust (voice)	Episode: "Last Exit Before Doomsday" Episode: "This Al Dente Earth"
	Brothers & Sisters	Buffy McCreary	3 episodes
	Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back	Luna (voice)
2011	Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, AA Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!	Wanda	TV movie
2011-2014	Suburgatory	Dallas Royce	Main role
2012	A Fairly Odd Christmas	Wanda	TV movie
2013	Hollywood Game Night	Herself	Episode: "Don't Kill My Buzz-er" Episode: "T'was the Game Night Before Christmas"
2014	Life After Beth	Judy Orfman
	The Crazy Ones	Beth Minker	Episode: "Zach Mitzvah"
	Think Like a Man 2	Andrea
2015	Christmas Eve	Dawn	Also known as Stuck
	The Middle	Dr. Sommer Samuelson	Episode: "The Convention"
2016	Wilson
	Young & Hungry	Kathy	Episode: "Young & Parents"
	Son of Zorn	Edie

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2006-2007	Campus Ladies	3 episodes
2008	Hollywood Residential	TV series

Director

Year	Title	Notes
2006	Campus Ladies	Episode: "No Means No"
2009	Serious Moonlight

Awards and nominations

List of awards and nominations
Year	Award	Category	TV Series	Result
2003	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Nominated
2005	Gracie Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Won
2006	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Nominated
2006	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Nominated
2007	Monte Carlo TV Festival	Outstanding Actress - Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Nominated
2010	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Nominated
2012	Critics' Choice Television Award	Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Comedy Supporting Actress	Suburgatory	Nominated

Charities

Cheryl Hines supports the following charitable cause: AIDS.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]