Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982), known professionally as Alison Brie, is an American actress and producer. She portrayed Annie Edison in the NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community (2009–2015) and Trudy Campbell in the AMC drama Mad Men (2007–2015), and currently voices Diane Nguyen on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman (2014–present). She has starred in several films, such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), and How to Be Single (2016).Brie was born in Hollywood, California. Her father, Charles Terry Schermerhorn, is a musician and freelance entertainment reporter. Her mother, Joanne Brenner, works at Para los Niños ("For the Children"), a non-profit childcare agency. She has a sister named Lauren. Brie's mother is Jewish, while her father has Dutch, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. 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 degree in theater in 2005. For a time, she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She later worked as a clown at birthday parties and performed in theater in California. Brie has been dating actor Dave Franco since 2012. On August 25, 2015, it was reported the two were engaged. They married in March 2017.
