Mary Lynn Rajskub

Birth name: Mary Lynn Rajskub
Date of birth: 22 June 1971
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Nickname: Mare
Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)

Famous Quote: “I have to paint at least two times a week, and there’s not enough time in the day to do everything. I think that the choice is clear. Oprah Winfrey. You can see a lot of similarities. We’re both geniuses, we’re both incredibly wealthy, and we’ve both started schools in Africa. I’m not married and I don’t think that’s going to work out for me. I’m not even bitter, I’m just exhausted.”

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Mary Lynn Rajskub
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 Mary Lynn Rajskub (sometimes credited as Marylynn Rajskub) (pronounced RICE-cub) (born June 22, 1971) is an American actress, artist, and stand-up comedian of Czech and Irish descent. A dark-haired performer who has made a her name in the industry with an original take on high-concept comedic stage productions as well as notable TV and film acting skills, Mary Lynn Rajskub proved a versatile and dynamic player. 

Appearing in extensive productions on stage in California, Rajskub started out as a San Francisco Art Institute student who found her comic side in performance pieces that played upon her skewed sense of humor and knack for bringing out the laughs in uncomfortable situations. Noticed by comedians Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Rajskub was cast on their HBO concept comedy sketch series “Mr. Show with Bob and David” in 1995 and remained with the program until 1996 when she switched to the network’s “The Larry Sanders Show”, replacing friend Janeane Garofalo’s character as the show within a show’s new eager to please and often inappropriate booker.

After a small role in the ‘fiction’ section of Todd Solondz’s bleak comedy “Storytelling” (2002), Rajskub gave an able supporting performance in the Reese Witherspoon-Josh Lucas romantic comedy, “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002). In “Punch-Drunk Love” (2002), she stood out as one of seven sisters constantly haranguing their only brother (Adam Sandler), a socially inept seller of toilet plungers who is set up with her co-worker after getting into trouble with a phone sex operator. 

Rajskub segued into television with an appearances on “Gilmore Girls” (WB, 2000- ) and “Good Morning Miami” (NBC, 2002-2004), then went back to the feature world, playing a congressional aide brought out of her shell when the effervescent Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) heads to Washington, D.C. in “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde” (2003). Rajskub then had a supporting role in the lame heist thriller, “Firewall” (2006), playing a hipster secretary opposite a miscast Harrison Ford as a computer security specialist forced to embezzle $100 million from a bank after a crew of mercenaries take his family hostage. 

Born and raised in Trenton, Michigan, Rajskub later moved to Los Angeles where she became one of the original cast members of Mr. Show, and also had roles on The Larry Sanders Show, Veronica’s Closet, the US version of The Sketch Show, NewsRadio, and 24. During her time on Mr. Show, she was also dating David Cross, leaving the show when they broke up after after the second season. Her often frenzied and daring portrayals proved Rajskub an energetic and versatile performer, a reputation she would further prove with stage appearances including the one-woman show “The Littlest Angel,” performed at Santa Monica’s Powerhouse Theater in 1996. A guest role on the failed sitcom “The Army Show” marked one of the actress’ few television appearances until her offbeat comedy met its match in “The Downer Channel” (2001), a Steve Martin-produced sketch series on NBC.

She has since appeared in more dramatic roles, most notably her role as CTU tech analyst Chloe O’Brian on 24, which she joined in 2003 at the start of the show’s third season. Her character was a hit with viewers and critics and was one of the few cast members to return in the show’s fourth season. After being a regular guest star for two seasons, Rajskub became a main cast member in the show’s fifth season. She is now lead female, with top billing second only to Kiefer Sutherland. Rajskub and Sutherland appeared briefly as their 24 characters in a 2007 episode of the FOX TV animated series The Simpsons.

She also appeared in Kelsey Grammer’s The Sketch Show on Fox Television, King of Queens as a character named “Priscilla”, a waitress at a pirate-themed kiddie restaurant in an episode of Newsradio (“The Secret of Management”), and in numerous films including Mysterious Skin, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude, Where’s My Car?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, music videos for Beck and Weezer, as well as portraying a blind girl in the film Road Trip.

She is also a skilled guitar player and was part of a comic duo (with Karen Kilgariff) called Girls Guitar Club. In 2006, she made a cameo appearance in an episode of Gilmore Girls where she played a troubadour looking for her big break. (Rajskub had previously appeared on Gilmore Girls as the female lead in A Film by Kirk, a short film made by the character Kirk Gleason).

Rajskub has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program. She has an educational background as a painter, having attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been nominated twice for a Screen Actors Guild Award; once in 2005, and again in 2007 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Rajskub worked as a waitress in a Hard Rock Cafe and as a ticket-taker at the Beverly Center movie theater before becoming an actress.

Rajskub and her live-in boyfriend Matthew Rolph, 27, a personal trainer, are expecting their first child together at the end of the summer. She referred to this child as the alien inside her on the Larry and Willy show on Jack FM , Vancouver , Canada Feb 28 /08 .She was once mistaken for a prostitute shortly after finishing a role in the Kirstie Alley sitcom Veronica’s Closet.

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