Anna Faris

Anna Faris is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, podcaster and author who became known for broad comic performances on screen. Her first starring part was Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie parody films, and she followed it with film roles in May, The Hot Chick, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Just Friends, The House Bunny and Overboard, along with voice work in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Alvin and the Chipmunks franchises. On television she played Erica in the last season of Friends and, from 2013 to 2021, Christy Plunkett in the CBS sitcom Mom. Beyond acting she created and hosted the advice podcast Unqualified and wrote a memoir of the same name, a New York Times Best Seller. She was born in Baltimore in 1976 and raised in Edmonds, Washington.