Cheryl Hines
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Cheryl Hines (born September 21, 1965) is an American actress best-known for her role as Larry David's wife on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Hines was born in Miami Beach, Florida, to Rosemary Graham Harbolt and a father whom she has described as "sort of a redneck".[1] Part of the family came from Frostproof, Florida;[2] Hines grew up in Tallahassee, Florida,[2] where she was a member of the Young Actors Theatre throughout high school. Hines also attended Lively Technical Center in Tallahassee.
“I went to this vocational technical institute in Tallahassee called Lively,” Hines fondly recounts. “There was a small group of girls right out of high school, and we’d get into a lot of trouble for partying all night and then going in the next morning, washing each other’s hair, setting it in rollers and sleeping under the hair dryer for, like, an hour.”[3]
Hines attended both West Virginia University and Florida State University, before graduating from the University of Central Florida.
[edit] Career
Hines worked as a personal assistant to Rob Reiner when she moved to LA. Though Reiner did not play a critical role in her career, he would come watch her shows when she began acting. Hines moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career, and began by doing improvisational comedy at The Groundlings Theater. Among the people she studied with was Lisa Kudrow.[2] She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well as Larry David's wife in the TV show Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. The show is written as retroscripting in which the plot outlines are generally and loosely drawn and the individual characters 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 impact. “Sometimes, I do feel like I live two lives.”[4]
In July 2006, Hines received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
[edit] Personal life
She has been married to Paul Young, Chairman of L.A.’s Groundlings Theater,[2] since December 30, 2002, and their daughter Catherine Rose was born on March 8, 2004. Hines participated in the 2006 Pro-Am Poker Equalizer.
[edit] Filmography
- Cheap Curry and Calculus (1996)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (TV series) (2000-Present)
- Reno 911! (TV series) (2003)
- Double Bill (TV film) (2003)
- Along Came Polly (2004)
- Father of the Pride (TV series) (2004)
- Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
- Our Very Own (2005)
- Scrubs (TV series) (2006)
- Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
- RV (2006)
- Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
- Waitress (2007)
- The Grand (2008)
- Henry Poole is Here (2008)
- Bart Got a Room (2008)
- The Legend of Secret Pass (voice) (2008)
- Space Chimps (voice) (2008)
- The Ugly Truth (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ The Washington Post Company. "Cheryl Hines balances tragic with the comic", MSNBC, 2007-05-10. Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
- ^ a b c d Moore, Roger. "Improv skills earn Hines some really big winners", Orlando Sentinel, 2007-05-24. Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
- ^ Heeb Magazine, Issue #15, Features
- ^ Heeb Magazine, Issue #15, Features
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