Missi Pyle

Andrea Kay Pyle (born November 16, 1972) is also known expertly as Missi Pyle, is an American entertainer and artist. She played in movies, including  Galaxy Quest Click to look into! >> Read More...  (1999), Big Fish (2003), Bringing Down the House (2003), DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), The Artist (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), and Ma (2019).

Pyle went to the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and graduated in 1995. She also went to Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee.

Pyle has featured on numerous TV shows, including Heroes, Mad About You, Boston Legal, Frasier, The Sarah Silverman Program, and 2 Broke Girls. She began her movie career with a small role in As Good As It Gets, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. After starred in Galaxy Quest, she played supporting roles in Bringing Down the House (for which she and Queen Latifah were assigned for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight), Josie and the Pussycats, Home Alone 4, Exposed, Big Fish, Along Came Polly, Soul Plane, Stormbreaker, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was the female lead in Bachelor Man. She further seems in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. She also had a brief appearance in 50 First Dates and was featured in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song. 

Pyle played Jake's Elementary School instructor, Ms. Pasternak, in Two and a Half Men. She was also seen in "Of Course He's Dead" in 2015. In 2008, Missi featured in the Broadway play Boeing-Boeing opposite Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Greg German, Paige Davis, and Rebecca Gay heart. The play shut in January 2009. 

Shawnee Smith and Pyle met while recording an ABC comedy pilot titled Traveling in Packs. The band formed after Smith welcomed Pyle to join her in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While stranded in rush hour gridlock, Pyle discussed her fantasy to be a demigod, and Smith consented to frame a band with her. Their first collection, "It's OK to Be Happy," was delivered carefully through iTunes and Amazon in July 2008 under Urban Prairie Records banner.