Paget Valerie Brewster is an American actress. She is best known for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds. In June 2010, it was announced that her role in season 6 of Criminal Minds would be reduced. On March 16, 2011 her role as Emily Prentiss ended. AJ Cook's role was also ended. However, in August 2011 it was announced that both Brewster and Cook would be returning to Criminal Minds for the seventh season. On February 15, 2012, Brewster announced via Twitter that she would be leaving Criminal Minds after the current seventh season. Her last episode... will air on May 16, 2012. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts. Her mother, Hathaway , worked as a government official, and her father, Galen Brewster, worked as a school administrator. She first came to prominent attention in her recurring role as "Kathy" in the fourth season of NBC's Friends. Brewster also had a short-lived Bay Area talk show. She appeared in Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Huff. On film, she played Ms. Indestructible, the female lead in James Gunn's low-budget superhero comedy,The Specials .
more