Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american actress best known for portraying trudy campbell on mad men and annie edison on community”. Today it says “american actress”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American actress (born 1982)”. It now reads “American actress and writer (born 1982)”.
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Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982) is an American actress, writer, and producer. She earned recognition for playing Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), and had her breakthrough starring as Annie Edison in the sitcom Community (2009–2015). She then voiced Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020) and portrayed Ruth Wilder in the comedy drama series GLOW (2017–2019), receiving nominations at the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for the latter. In addition to her television work, Brie has featured in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie film series (2014–2019), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), How to Be Single (2016), The Post (2017), The Little Hours (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Happiest Season (2020). She also wrote, produced, and starred in the films Horse Girl (2020), Spin Me Round (2022), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023).
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Alison Brie (born December 29, 1983) is an American actress best known for portraying Trudy Campbell on Mad Men and Annie Edison on Community .
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Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982), known professionally as Alison Brie , is an American actress.She is known for portraying Annie Edison on the NBC / Yahoo! series Community and Trudy Campbell on the AMC drama Mad Men .She has starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014) and Get Hard (2015).
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Brie is best known for her starring roles as Annie Edison in the comedy series Community (2009–2015), Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and as Ruth Wilder in the comedy-drama series GLOW (2017–present), for which she received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy .In addition to her television work, Brie has starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), Get Hard (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), How to Be Single (2016), The Little Hours (2017), The Disaster Artist (2017), The Post (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Horse Girl (2020), the lattermost of which she also co-wrote and produced.
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American actress (born 1982) Alison Brie Schermerhorn (born December 29, 1982), known professionally as Alison Brie , is an American actress, writer, and producer.Her breakthrough came with the role of Trudy Campbell in the drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), which won her a Screen Actors Guild Award .She gained recognition for her role as Annie Edison in the sitcom Community (2009–2015) and voicing Diane Nguyen in the animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020).In addition to her television work, Brie has starred in films such as Scream 4 (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), The Lego Movie (2014), How to Be Single (2016), The Post (2017), The Little Hours (2017), Promising Young Woman (2020), and Happiest Season (2020).She also wrote, produced, and starred in the films Horse Girl (2020), Spin Me Round (2022), and Somebody I Used to Know (2023).
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american actress best known for portraying trudy campbell on mad men and annie edison on community”. Today it says “american actress”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American actress (born 1982)”. It now reads “American actress and writer (born 1982)”. Read the current article and compare.
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american actress best known for portraying trudy campbell on mad men and annie edison on community
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american actress
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