Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive and I Love You, Man. Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue , a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman. She has two siblings: sister Jessica and brother James Liston Pressly, Jr. She spent 11 years studying gymnastics and... dancing. Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through a divorce. By age 14, she was the spokeswoman for her modeling agency "International Cover Model Search" and had begun to gain recognition for her modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan.
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| Birthdate: | July 30, 1977 |
| Birthplace: | Kinston, North Carolina |
| Age: | 34 |
| Height: | 5' 5" |
| Education: | Costa Mesa High School |
| Also known as: | Jaime Lynn Pressly, Jaime Elizabeth Pressly, Jamie Pressly |