Sara Rue (born January 26, 1979) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress. She's best known for the roles she played as Carmen Ferrara on the comedy-drama
PopularPopular was a teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist...
and Claudia Casey on the sitcom
Less Than PerfectLess than Perfect is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 1, 2002 to June 6, 2006. The show was about a young female office employee and her co-workers...
. She also guest-starred on the show
Will & GraceWill & Grace is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm...
as Joyce, the sister of
Grace AdlerGrace Elizabeth Adler is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. She is a Jewish interior designer , living in New York City with her gay best friend Will Truman...
(
Debra MessingDebra Lynn Messing is an American actress, best known for her role as Grace Adler in the sitcom Will & Grace.- Early life :...
). She's currently starring in the Supernatural Dramedy
EastwickEastwick is an American television drama series created by Maggie Friedman. The series is a television adaptation of the John Updike novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and its 1987 film adaptation. The show currently airs on ABC and is currently being produced by ABC Studios. The show premiered on...
as Penny Higgins.
Sara Rue was born
Sara Schlackman in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
,
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, the daughter of Joan (
néeA married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Rue), a municipal employee and former actress, and Marc Schlackman, a stage manager.
Sara Rue (born January 26, 1979) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress. She's best known for the roles she played as Carmen Ferrara on the comedy-drama
PopularPopular was a teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist...
and Claudia Casey on the sitcom
Less Than PerfectLess than Perfect is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 1, 2002 to June 6, 2006. The show was about a young female office employee and her co-workers...
. She also guest-starred on the show
Will & GraceWill & Grace is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm...
as Joyce, the sister of
Grace AdlerGrace Elizabeth Adler is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. She is a Jewish interior designer , living in New York City with her gay best friend Will Truman...
(
Debra MessingDebra Lynn Messing is an American actress, best known for her role as Grace Adler in the sitcom Will & Grace.- Early life :...
). She's currently starring in the Supernatural Dramedy
EastwickEastwick is an American television drama series created by Maggie Friedman. The series is a television adaptation of the John Updike novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and its 1987 film adaptation. The show currently airs on ABC and is currently being produced by ABC Studios. The show premiered on...
as Penny Higgins.
Early life
Sara Rue was born
Sara Schlackman in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
,
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, the daughter of Joan (
néeA married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
Rue), a municipal employee and former actress, and Marc Schlackman, a stage manager. The elder of two daughters, she was raised in New York, where her parents were active in
BroadwayBroadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
theaters. She began her own acting career at the age of nine, appearing in the 1988 film
Rocket GibraltarRocket Gibraltar is an American film released in 1988, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Burt Lancaster and Patricia Clarkson. In the movie, an aging patriarch reunites his entire family for his birthday, but personal and social problems abound....
as
Kevin SpaceyKevin Spacey is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
's daughter (and as the late
Burt LancasterBurton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an American film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image...
's granddaughter). She also played a young Roseanne in the first meeting of Roseanne and Dan at a dance on the TV show
RoseanneRoseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for...
.
Career
Rue won critical acclaim for her television series debut, starring in the comedy
GrandGrand was a half-hour situation comedy that aired on the NBC network in 1990. The series featured an ensemble cast including Pamela Reed, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McKean, John Randolph, Andrew Lauer, John Neville, Joel Murray and Sara Rue. It was created by Michael Leeson, executive produced by...
, before going on to work on
PhenomPhenom is an American sitcom about a tennis wunderkind that aired on ABC from September 14, 1993 to May 10, 1994. The series stars Angela Goethals, Judith Light, and William Devane.-Synopsis:...
,
Minor AdjustmentsMinor Adjustments is an American television sitcom that appeared on the NBC network in the United States during the 1995–96 season....
,
Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane,
ERER is an American medical drama series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 1994 to April 2009. It is set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment in...
,
The DivisionThe Division is an American Lifetime Television original series about a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.-Synopsis:...
and
PopularPopular was a teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist...
.
She has appeared in several films (
A Map of the WorldA Map of the World is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.- Plot...
,
Can't Hardly WaitCan't Hardly Wait is a romantic comedy teen film written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, and Seth Green....
,
A Slipping Down Life,
Gypsy 83Gypsy 83 is a 2001 film by Todd Stephens. It is about two young goths, Gypsy and Clive who travel to New York for an annual festival celebrating their idol, Stevie Nicks.-Plot summary:...
and had a small part as a babysitter in
Gore VerbinskiGregor "Gore" Verbinski is an American film director and writer.- Biography :He was born the third of five children to Vic and Laurette Verbinski in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. His siblings are Janine, Claire, Diane and Steven. His father was of Polish descent and worked as a nuclear...
's adaptation of
The RingThe Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film . Both films are based on the novel of the same name by Kôji Suzuki...
), and so impressed director
Michael BayMichael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. Bay is best known for making large-budget action films, such as Armageddon, The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and producing remakes of horror movies such as Friday The...
that a role was written into the movie
Pearl Harbor for her. Rue briefly appeared in the 2006
Mike JudgeMichael Craig "Mike" Judge is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, director, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill. He also wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-head Do America, Office...
film
IdiocracyIdiocracy is a 2006 comedic film, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph.The film tells the story of two ordinary people who are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment that goes awry, and awaken 500 years in the future...
, in the role of the Attorney General.
She currently stars in the stage musical
Little Egypt with
French StewartFrench Stewart is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun.-Personal life:...
,
Jenny O'HaraJenny O'Hara is an American actress who is part of a performing family whose influence encompasses regional and New York Theater from Warren, Pennsylvania to Greenwich Village, Broadway, and rock music from England to New York....
, and
Gregg HenryGregg Lee Henry is an American theater, film, and television character actor and rock, blues, and country musician. He is best known his critically acclaimed performance as serial killer Dennis Rader in the made-for-television movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer, and for playing various "heavies" in...
at The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles.
Rue guest starred in
Two and a Half MenTwo and a Half Men is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American television comedy series, which premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. The sitcom stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones. The show is about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie; his uptight brother,...
as Berta's youngest daughter Naomi who is pregnant and, as the episode progresses, eventually has her baby on Charlie's couch. Rue is currently working on the movies
Man Maid and
For Christ's Sake, both of which are in post production.
Rue had a stint on the
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
sitcom
The Big Bang TheoryThe Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It premiered on CBS September 24, 2007....
, playing the character of
Leonard HofstadterDr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter is a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Johnny Galecki. Originally from New Jersey, he is a Caltech experimental physicist who shares an apartment with Dr. Sheldon Cooper in Pasadena, California in a building where...
's girlfriend, Stephanie for 3 episodes. Her first appearance on the show occurred on November 17, 2008.
Rue will be producing an upcoming movie. The movie will be a suspense thriller revolving around the world of online social networking. The yet to be titled film will be released through Dimension Films.
Rue will be starring on the ABC show
EastwickEastwick is an American television drama series created by Maggie Friedman. The series is a television adaptation of the John Updike novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and its 1987 film adaptation. The show currently airs on ABC and is currently being produced by ABC Studios. The show premiered on...
. The show is based on the novel and movie
The Witches of EastwickThe Witches of Eastwick is a comic horror fantasy film based on John Updike's novel of the same name. It was directed by George Miller, and starred Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as the eponymous witches.- Plot :Alexandra Medford , Jane...
.
Eastwick will premiere on ABC in the fall of 2009.
Personal life
Rue married director/writer/producer Mischa Livingstone in 2001. The couple were married for six years, and then divorced in 2007.
On August 11, 2009, Rue became engaged to boyfriend Kevin Price.
Filmography
- 2009: Eastwick
Eastwick is an American television drama series created by Maggie Friedman. The series is a television adaptation of the John Updike novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and its 1987 film adaptation. The show currently airs on ABC and is currently being produced by ABC Studios. The show premiered on...
TV series .... Penny
- 2009: Not Since You (post-production) .... Doogs
- 2009: For Christ's Sake .... Candy
- 2009: Leverage
Leverage is a U.S. television drama series on TNT that premiered in December, 2008. The series is produced by director/executive producer Dean Devlin's production company Electric Television...
.... Marissa "The Mile High Job"
- 2008: The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady. It premiered on CBS September 24, 2007....
.... Stephanie / ... (3 episodes 2008)
- 2008: Nightmare at the End of the Hall .... Courtney
- 2008: Spaced
Spaced is a British television situation comedy written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop-culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism...
(TV) .... Apryl
- 2008: Man Maid .... Torry
- 2006: Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American television comedy series, which premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. The sitcom stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones. The show is about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie; his uptight brother,...
.... Naomi (2 episodes, 2006-2007)
- 2007: Nurses
Nurses was a television sitcom that ran on NBC from 1991 to 1994, developed and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest ....
(TV) aka Philidelphia General
- 2006: Idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 comedic film, directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph.The film tells the story of two ordinary people who are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment that goes awry, and awaken 500 years in the future...
(uncredited) .... Attorney General
- 2002: Less Than Perfect
Less than Perfect is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 1, 2002 to June 6, 2006. The show was about a young female office employee and her co-workers...
.... Claude Casey (81 episodes, 2002-2006)
- 2006: Danny Roane: First Time Director
Danny Roane: First Time Director is a 2006 comedy film written, directed by and starring Andy Dick, Jack Black and Mo Collins. This independent production is a documentary mixed with a mockumentary on Dick's struggle on making a film....
.... Charlotte Lewis
- 2006: Play Nice (TV)
- 2005: Barbara Jean .... Barbara Jean
- 2003: MADtv
MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...
.... The Babysitter (1 episode, 2003) Episode #9.11 (2003) TV episode .... The Babysitter
- 2002: The Division
The Division is an American Lifetime Television original series about a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.-Synopsis:...
.... Amanda McCafferty (3 episodes, 2002-2003) ... aka "Heart of the City"
- 2003: This Time Around (TV) .... Gabby Castellani
- 2002: The Ring
The Ring is a 2002 American remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film . Both films are based on the novel of the same name by Kôji Suzuki...
.... Babysitter
- 2001: Gypsy 83
Gypsy 83 is a 2001 film by Todd Stephens. It is about two young goths, Gypsy and Clive who travel to New York for an annual festival celebrating their idol, Stevie Nicks.-Plot summary:...
.... Gypsy Vale
- 2001: Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King, and Jennifer Garner...
.... Nurse Martha ... aka Pearl Harbour (UK: promotional title)
- 1999: Popular
Popular was a teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist...
.... Carmen Ferrara (43 episodes, 1999-2001)
- 2000: Will & Grace
Will & Grace is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006. The show takes place in New York City and focuses on Will Truman, a gay lawyer, and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm...
.... Joyce Adler (1 episode, 2000) Lows in the Mid-Eighties
- 1999: A Map of the World
A Map of the World is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.- Plot...
.... Debbie ... aka Unschuldig verfolgt (Germany)
- 1999: Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane .... Breeny Kennedy (3 episodes, 1999)
- 1999: A Slipping-Down Life
A Slipping-Down Life is a 1999 romantic drama film directed by Toni Kalem. Based on a novel by Anne Tyler, it stars Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce.-Plot:...
.... Violet
- 1998: The Simple Life
The Simple Life was a popular reality television series broadcast from December 2, 2003 to August 5, 2007. The first three seasons aired on Fox, and the final two on E!...
.... Melanie (3 episodes, 1998)
- 1998: Can't Hardly Wait
Can't Hardly Wait is a romantic comedy teen film written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, and Seth Green....
.... Earth Girl
- 1998: Nowhere to Go ... aka Silent Hearts (USA: TV title)
- 1998: Chicago Hope
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994 to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:...
.... Rhonda Fritz (1 episode, 1998) The Ties That Bind (1998) TV episode .... Rhonda Fritz
- 1997: Ned and Stacey .... Amy (1 episode, 1997) Prom Night (1997) TV episode .... Amy
- 1997: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American animated television series that premiered March 26, 1995, on HBO. The series retells popular fairy tales by placing them in different cultures and settings while featuring celebrity voices...
.... Younger Sister (1 episode, 1997) The Golden Goose (1997) TV episode (voice) .... Younger Sister
- 1996: For My Daughter's Honor
For My Daughter's Honor, also released as Indecent Seduction, is a 1996 television film directed by Alan Metzger.- Plot :New in high school, the 14-year-old Amy Dustin is soon noticed by biology teacher and football coach Pete Nash. They take a sudden interest in each other, sending each other...
(TV) .... Kimberly Jones ... aka Indecent Seduction
- 1996: Pearl
This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Pearl .Pearl is an American situation comedy, which was broadcast by CBS as part of its 1996-97 lineup.-Plot:...
.... Bertha Sugs (1 episode, 1996) - Ticket to Ride
- 1996: ER
ER is an American medical drama series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 1994 to April 2009. It is set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment in...
.... Jane (1 episode, 1996) - Don't Ask, Don't Tell (1996) TV episode .... Jane
- 1995: Minor Adjustments
Minor Adjustments is an American television sitcom that appeared on the NBC network in the United States during the 1995–96 season....
(1995) TV series .... Darby Gladstone (unknown episodes, 1995-1996)
- 1995: Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare (TV) .... Jacquelyn
- 1995: Blossom
Blossom is an American comedy-drama series broadcast from 1991 to 1995 on NBC. The series starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenage girl living with her father and two brothers. It was created by Don Reo.- Synopsis :...
.... Angie (1 episode, 1995) - Mating Rituals
- 1993: Phenom
Phenom is an American sitcom about a tennis wunderkind that aired on ABC from September 14, 1993 to May 10, 1994. The series stars Angela Goethals, Judith Light, and William Devane.-Synopsis:...
.... Monica (3 episodes, 1993-1994)
- 1992: Roseanne
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for...
.... Teenage Roseanne (1 episode, 1992) - Halloween IV (1992) TV episode .... Teenage Roseanne
- 1992: Passed Away
Passed Away is an American ensemble comedy film from 1992.- Cast :*Bob Hoskins - Johnny Scanlan*Jack Warden - Jack Scanlan*William Petersen - Frank Scanlan*Diana Bellamy - BJ*Don Brockett - Froggie*Helen Lloyd Breed - Aunt Maureen...
.... Megan Scanlan
- 1990: Grand
Grand was a half-hour situation comedy that aired on the NBC network in 1990. The series featured an ensemble cast including Pamela Reed, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McKean, John Randolph, Andrew Lauer, John Neville, Joel Murray and Sara Rue. It was created by Michael Leeson, executive produced by...
.... Edda Pasetti (26 episodes, 1990)
- 1988: Rocket Gibraltar
Rocket Gibraltar is an American film released in 1988, directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Burt Lancaster and Patricia Clarkson. In the movie, an aging patriarch reunites his entire family for his birthday, but personal and social problems abound....
.... Jessica Hanson