Early life

Pyle, the youngest daughter of Linda and Frank Pyle, was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She has two older sisters, Debbie and Julie, two older brothers, Sam and Paul, one younger half-brother, Gordon, and a half-sister, Meredith. Pyle attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated in 1995. For her achievements, Pyle was honored by the Poplar Pike Playhouse at her alma mater Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee.

Career

Pyle has guest starred on many television shows, including Heroes, Mad About You, Boston Legal, Frasier, The Sarah Silverman Program, and 2 Broke Girls. She started her film career with a minor role in As Good as It Gets, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. After her breakout role in Galaxy Quest, she had supporting roles in Bringing Down the House (for which she and Queen Latifah were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight), Josie and the Pussycats, Home Alone 4, Exposed, Big Fish, Along Came Polly, Soul Plane, Stormbreaker, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was also the female lead in BachelorMan. Barely recognizable, she appears in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. She also had a brief appearance in 50 First Dates.

Pyle played Jake's Elementary School teacher Ms. Pasternak on Two and a Half Men. The role was recast in 2009 for undisclosed reasons, but Pyle returned to the series in the same role in 2011 and again in the series finale "Of Course He's Dead" in 2015.

In 2008, Missi starred in the Broadway play Boeing-Boeing opposite Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Greg Germann, Paige Davis and Rebecca Gayheart. The play closed in January 2009.

Pyle was scheduled to ring the closing bell for the trading day at the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, 2008 to promote Boeing-Boeing, but backed out minutes before the close of trading in order to not associate herself with ending a calamitous day of financial turmoil which resulted in the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 778 points, the largest point loss ever in a session in the wake of the global financial crisis of September-October 2008. She watched from the floor as an NYSE staffer pushed the button and gaveled the end of trading instead.

She is currently part of a country music group with actress Shawnee Smith called Smith & Pyle. The two actresses met while filming an ABC comedy pilot titled Traveling in Packs. The band started after Smith invited Pyle to join her in attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While stuck in traffic, Pyle talked about her dream to be a rock star and Smith agreed to form a band with her. Their first album, "It's OK to Be Happy", was released digitally through iTunes and Amazon.com in July 2008. The debut album was recorded in Joshua Tree, California at Rancho de la Luna and was produced by Chris Goss. The two actresses have also become business partners and formed their own record label called Urban Prairie Records, under which "It's OK to be Happy" was released. According to an interview Smith did with pretty-scary.net in August 2008, a Smith & Pyle television or webisode series might be in the works. Smith also mentioned the idea of a series on Fangoria radio with Dee Snider. Currently there are 3 videos posted on YouTube that show the making of the record. They also have a 10-minute "making of" video on Vimeo called Smith & Pyle: Desert Sessions.

Personal life

Pyle married naturalist Casey Anderson on September 12, 2008. The wedding was country-western themed and took place in Montana. Wedding guests included bandmate Shawnee Smith and comedian Steve Agee. Anderson's pet grizzly bear, Brutus, served as his best man in the ceremony. Pyle and Anderson appeared in "Grizzly Dogs", the October 22, 2010 episode of Dog Whisperer, in which they sought the help of Cesar Millan to rehabilitate their dog. They are no longer together.

Pyle "married" actress and bandmate Shawnee Smith in a faux ceremony at the All Love is Equal Launch Party in West Hollywood on November 18, 2009. The two actresses pretended to get married in support of repealing Prop 8 in California. Actor Hal Sparks dressed as a priest and performed the ceremony with them using rainbow-colored hula hoops as rings.

The drag queen "Pissi Myles" is named after her.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	As Good as It Gets	Cafe 24 waitress
1998	Number One	Laurel	Short film
1999	Trick	Actress with flowers
1999	Galaxy Quest	Laliari
2000	But Enough About Me...	Catherine Grey	Short film
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Alexandra Cabot
2001	Let It Snow	Ily
2002	Home Alone 4	Vera
2003	Bringing Down the House	Ashley
2003	BachelorMan	Heather
2003	Exposed	Amy
2003	Big Fish	Mildred
2004	Along Came Polly	Roxanne
2004	50 First Dates	Noreen	Uncredited
2004	Soul Plane	Barbara Hunkee
2004	DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story	Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky
2004	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	Zoo keeper	Uncredited
2005	Civilization of Maxwell Bright, TheThe Civilization of Maxwell Bright	Cop
2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Mrs. Beauregarde
2006	Just My Luck	Peggy Brayden
2006	Mojave Phone Booth	Sarah
2006	Stormbreaker	Nadia Vole
2007	Live!	Plummy
2007	Entry Level	Liz
2007	Feast of Love	Agatha Smith
2008	Meet Market	Ericka
2008	Pretty Ugly People	Lucy
2008	Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay	Raylene
2008	American Crude	Gigi
2008	Visioneers	Sahra
2008	Soccer Mom	Wendy Handler/Coach Lorenzo
2009	Spring Breakdown	Charlene
2009	Still Waiting...	Rocky Rhoades/Exotic dancer	Direct-to-DVD
2009	Taking Chances	Faith Fishback
2009	Fork in the Road, AA Fork in the Road	Nola
2010	Barry Munday	Lida Griggs
2010	Miss Nobody	Charmaine
2011	Artist, TheThe Artist	Constance	Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2011	Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, AA Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song	Gail Van Ravensway	Direct-to-DVD
2012	My Uncle Rafael	Blair Schumacher
2013	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Gray Sister #3
2013	Bakersfield, Earth	Judy	Short film
2013	#Rip	Lydia Walters	Short film
2014	Haunted House 2, AA Haunted House 2	Noreen
2014	Just Before I Go	Officer CT
2014	Dragula	Maggie	Short film
2014	Gone Girl	Ellen Abbott
2014	Kiss Me	Pam
2015	Uncle Nick	Michelle	In post-production
2015	Captain Fantastic		Filming
2015	Slash		Filming
2016	Director's Cut	Missi Pyle

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Mad About You	Beautiful woman	Episode: "The Final Frontier: Part 2"
1999	Drew Carey Show, TheThe Drew Carey Show	Stacey	Episode: "Drew's Reunion"
1999	Friends	Hillary	Episode: "The One with Ross's Teeth"
2000	Battery Park	Suzanne	Episode: "Walter's Rib"
2001	Ally McBeal	Marcia Hooper	Episode: "Reach Out and Touch"
2001	Wayne Brady Show, TheThe Wayne Brady Show	Various	6 episodes
2001	Roswell	Windy Sommers	Episode: "Control"
2001	Tick, TheThe Tick	Stacy Waxman	Episode: "Arthur Needs Space"
2002	Philly	Charise DuPree	Episode: "Mojo Rising"
2002	Home Alone 4	Vera Merchants	Television film
2003	Frasier	Shannon Palmer	Episode: "Maris Returns"
2004-15	Two and a Half Men	Dolores Pasternak	3 episodes
2005	My Name Is Earl	Shelly Stoker	Episode: "Broke Joy's Fancy Figurine"
2006, 2008	Boston Legal	Renee Winger	3 episodes
2007-10	Sarah Silverman Program, TheThe Sarah Silverman Program	Scarlett Lacey	4 episodes
2007	Heroes	Hope	Episodes: "Run!" "Unexpected"
2007	Wedding Bells, TheThe Wedding Bells	Amanda Pontell	Main cast; 5 episodes
2008	American Dad!	Tracy, drunk girl, sorority girl	Voice; episode: "Spring Breakup"
2008	In Plain Sight	Teri Ranzino/Treena Morris	Episode: "Never the Bride"
2008	Pushing Daisies	Betty Bee	Episode: "Bzzzzzzzzz!"
2009	Numb3rs	Janet Galvin	Episode: "Ultimatum"
2010	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Baylow	Episode: "The Time Warp"
2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Merch owner	Episode: "I Kissed a Girl"
2010-11	Mentalist, TheThe Mentalist	Karen Cross	2 episodes
2010-11	$h*! My Dad Says	Katie Palmer	2 episodes
2011	American Dad!	N/A	Voice; episode: "Fart-Break Hotel"
2011	Up All Night	Kaye	Episode: "Mr. Bob's Toddler Kaleidoscope"
2011	Family Guy	Kitty Hawk woman	Voice; episode: "Amish Guy"
2012	Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23	Angie Beckencort	Episode: "Whatever It Takes..."
2013	Newsreaders	Rebecca Lionwek	Episode: "Auto Erotic"
2013	1600 Penn	Agent Sarah Harlan	Episode: "Frosting/Nixon"
2013	2 Broke Girls	Charity Channing	Episode: "And Not-So-Sweet Charity"
2013	Warehouse 13	Lily Abbott	Episode: "The Big Snag"
2013-14	Inside Amy Schumer	Various roles	3 episodes
2013-14	Exes, TheThe Exes	Sabrina/Julie	2 episodes
2013	Mindy Project, TheThe Mindy Project	Nancy	Episode: "Mindy Lahiri Is a Racist"
2014	Crazy Ones, TheThe Crazy Ones	Melora	Episode: "Dead and Improved"
2014	Jennifer Falls	Dina Simac	Main cast
2015	Hot in Cleveland	Canadian Joy	Episode: "About a Joy"
2015	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Trudy Malco	Episode: "Granting Immunity"
2015	Z Nation	Bernadette	Episode: "Rozwell"
2016	Bordertown	Gert Buckwald	Main role (3 episodes)
2016	The Soul Man	Alicia	Recurring role (Season 5)
2016	Sing It!	Marcy	Main role
2016	Lady Dynamite	Carol Simples	Episode: "A Vaginismus Miracle"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Greetings from Home	Sue	12 episodes
2013-14	Cleaners	Eileen	Main role (18 episodes)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	900 Oneonta	Burning Jewel	Circle Repertory Theatre September 15-22, 1996
2008	Boeing-Boeing	Gretchen	Longacre Theatre September 9 - October 7, 2008
2012-13	Bare	Sister Joan	New World Stages December 19, 2012 - February 3, 2013

Discography

Albums

• It's OK to Be Happy, Smith & Pyle (2008)

Singles

• "One Night Stand", Smith & Pyle (2010)
• "Rafael", Smith & Pyle (2010)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]