Early life

Greer was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her mother, Mollie Ann (née Greer), is a hospital administrator and former nun, and her father, Rich Evans, is a mechanical engineer. She was raised as a Catholic and grew up in Redford Township and Livonia. Greer attended Churchill High School and graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University in 1997.

Career

Greer had a recurring role on the Fox comedy series Arrested Development (2003-2005, 2013), playing Kitty Sanchez in 10 episodes total and appearing in each of the series' three original seasons. In an August 2009 interview, Greer said that she is most recognized for this role. She had supporting roles in Jawbreaker (1999), The Wedding Planner (2001), Adaptation (2002), 13 Going on 30 (2004), The Village (2004), Elizabethtown (2005), 27 Dresses (2008), and Love Happens (2009). Greer has made guest appearances on Just Shoot Me! (2003), CSI: Miami (2005), My Name Is Earl (2006), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2007, 2011), Californication (2007-2008, 2012), ER (2009), House (2009), Modern Family (2010), The Big Bang Theory (2010), How I Met Your Mother (2010) and Warren the Ape (2010). She took on a starring role in the ABC sitcom Miss Guided (2008), but it was canceled in its first season. She also starred in the indie satire Visioneers (2008).

In April 2008, Greer appeared as a yoga instructor in the "Get a Mac" ad series featuring John Hodgman and Justin Long. Greer starred in a CBS sitcom entitled Mad Love, which premiered in February 2011 as a mid-season replacement. The show was canceled after the first season.

Greer is also a voice actress, voicing the character of Cheryl on the animated comedy series Archer, a character which has been compared to her role on Arrested Development, and the character of Wendy Park on the stop-motion animated sitcom Glenn Martin, DDS. As of 2011, Greer portrays Bridget Schmidt, Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher)'s ex-wife in Two and a Half Men, Myra, a love interest of Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) and the sister of Herb Melnick, (Ryan Stiles) in two episodes of the show in 2007.

In November 2011, Greer was honored with the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award at the Denver Film Festival, where two films featuring Greer were in the festival's programming, including a red carpet screening of Alexander Payne's The Descendants and the Jay and Mark Duplass' Jeff, Who Lives at Home. She is the first actress to be honored with the award. She played the gym teacher Miss Desjardin in the 2013 film adaptation, Carrie, alongside Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, and played female chimp Cornelia in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). In 2014, Greer made her directorial debut, with a short film for AOL, Quiet Time. Greer stars with Nat Faxon in the FX comedy series Married, which premiered in July 2014. In 2015, Greer co-starred in the films Tomorrowland, Jurassic World and Ant-Man, among others. She will reprise her role of the chimp Cornelia in War for the Planet of the Apes, scheduled for a 2017 release.

Personal life

Greer is married to Dean E. Johnsen, an executive producer of Real Time with Bill Maher.

During an interview, Greer stated that she is no longer a practicing Catholic. In 2014, she told Glamour, "I had been wanting to try and learn how to meditate, and I did research on the different types of meditation. TM seemed the easiest, and I liked that it wasn't religious in any way."

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Stricken	Cynthia
1998	Kissing a Fool	Andrea
1999	The Reel	Secretary	Short film
1999	Jawbreaker	Fern Mayo
1999	Three Kings	Cathy Daitch
1999	The Big Split	Tracy
2000	What Planet Are You From?	Rebecca
2000	Sunset Strip	Younger Waitress
2000	The Specials	Deadly Girl
2000	Desperate But Not Serious	Molly
2000	What Women Want	Erin the File Girl
2001	Audit	Julie Leer	Short film
2001	Without Charlie	Vicky
2001	The Wedding Planner	Penny
2002	Rules of Love	Maisie	Short film
2002	Adaptation	Alice the Waitress
2003	The Hebrew Hammer	Esther Bloomembergensteinenthal
2003	The Cat Returns	Yuki (voice)	English dub
2003	I Love Your Work	Samantha
2004	13 Going on 30	Lucy Wyman
2004	The Village	Kitty Walker
2004	The Last Shot	Girl with Emily French at Movie Premiere
2004	LolliLove	Judy
2005	Cursed	Joanie
2005	The Amateurs	Ellie
2005	The Great New Wonderful	Allison Burbage	Segment: "David and Allison's Story"
2005	In Memory of My Father	Judy
2005	Elizabethtown	Heather Baylor
2005	Full Disclosure	Brinn	Short film
2006	American Dreamz	Accordo
2006	The TV Set	Alice
2007	The Go-Getter	Better Than Toast
2007	The Grand	Sharon Andrews
2008	27 Dresses	Casey
2008	Visioneers	Michelle
2009	The Casting Director	The Casting Agent	Short film
2009	Wig	Dr. Almay	Short film
2009	Love Happens	Marty
2010	Barry Munday	Ginger Farley
2010	Marmaduke	Debbie Winslow
2010	Henry's Crime	Debbie Torne
2010	Peep World	Laura
2010	Love & Other Drugs	Cindy
2011	The Key Man	Karen
2011	The Descendants	Julie Speer
2011	Jeff, Who Lives at Home	Linda
2012	Republicans, Get in My Vagina	Woman #2	Video short
2012	Playing for Keeps	Barb
2013	Carrie	Miss Desjardin
2014	Jamie Marks Is Dead	Lucy
2014	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes	Cornelia
2014	Men, Women & Children	Joan Clint
2015	Grandma	Olivia
2015	Addicted to Fresno	Shannon
2015	Tomorrowland	Jenny Newton
2015	Entourage	Casting Director	Cameo
2015	Jurassic World	Karen Mitchell
2015	Ant-Man	Maggie Lang
2016	All We Had	Patti
2016	Geezer	Christy
2016	Wilson		Post-production
2017	War for the Planet of the Apes	Cornelia	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Early Edition	Cindy	Episode: "Angels and Devils"
1998	Oh Baby	Gail	Episode: "The Hut"
1999	Maggie Winters	Tawny	Episode: "Girls Night Out"
1999-2000	Love & Money	Puff Conklin	13 episodes
2002 2011-2012	Family Guy	Pregnant Dancer / Hope / Various voices	3 episodes
2003	Just Shoot Me!	Bridget	Episode: "Rivals in Romance"
2003-2005 2013	Arrested Development	Kitty Sanchez	10 episodes
2005	CSI: Miami	Pamela Warren	Episode: "Shootout"
2006	Love Monkey	Brandy 'Bran' Lowenstein	8 episodes
2006	My Name Is Earl	Maggie Lester, the Bearded Lady	Episode: "Sticks & Stones"
2007 2011-2015	Two and a Half Men	Myra Melnick / Bridget Schmidt	13 episodes
2007, 2011	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Ingrid 'Fatty Magoo' Nelson	2 episodes
2007-2012	Californication	Trixie	4 episodes
2008	Miss Guided	Becky Freeley	7 episodes
2009	ER	Tildie Mulligan	Episode: "T-Minus-6"
2009	House	Morgan West	Episode: "Here Kitty"
2009	Maneater	Joanne 'Gravy' Hardgrave	2 episodes
2009	WordGirl	Desiree Dewey (voice)	Episode: "Robo-Camping/The Stew, the Proud ..."
2009-2011	Glenn Martin, DDS	Wendy Park (voice)	39 episodes
2009-present	Archer	Cheryl Tunt (voice)	85 episodes
2010	Modern Family	Denise	Episode: "Truth Be Told"
2010	The Big Bang Theory	Dr. Elizabeth Plimpton	Episode: "The Plimpton Stimulation"
2010	How I Met Your Mother	Royce	Episode: "The Wedding Bride"
2010	Warren the Ape	Mrs. Hanson	Episode: "Crash Course"
2011	Mad Love	Connie Grabowski	13 episodes
2012	Dan Vs.	Jennifer (voice)	Episode: "Dan vs. The Neighbors"
2012	Royal Pains	Miss Match-Maker	Episode: "You Give Love a Bad Name"
2013	Robot Chicken	Dorothy Gale / Jane Jetson (voices)	Episode: "Robot Fight Accident"
2014-2015	Married	Lina Bowman	23 episodes
2014	BoJack Horseman	Pam (voice)	Episode: "BoJack Hates The Troops"
2015	Masters of Sex	Alice Logan	Episode: "Party of Four"
2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Herself	Episode: "Judy Greer Wears A Navy Blouse And Strappy Sandals"
2015	Mom	Michelle	Episode: "Mozzarella Sticks and a Gay Piano Bar""

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2004	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Villain	13 Going on 30	Nominated
2011	Gotham Awards	Best Ensemble	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Satellite Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Denver Film Critics Society	Best Supporting Actress	The Descendants	Nominated
2011	Denver Film Festival	John Cassavetes Award		Won
2012	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	The Descendants	Nominated
2012	Annie Awards	Voice Acting in a Television Production	Archer	Nominated
2012	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Best Acting Ensemble	The Descendants	Nominated

Published works

• Greer, Judy (2014). I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-53788-9.

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