Paget Valerie Brewster

Paget Valerie is an American actress, singer and voice actor. She was first recognized for her role as Kathy in the fourth season's NBC sitcom Friends, she was also an actor and singer. Her breakout role was as Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the crime drama Criminal Minds where she appeared regularly between 2006 and 2012 and was then re-cast for guest appearances and then returned regularly in 2016. Her other roles include voiceovers for Elise and Mr. Mumbles on Dan Vs., Frankie Dart in the final season of Community as well as her voice as Birdgirl in the Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Sara Kingsley on the Fox sitcom Grandfathered and also voicing Donald Duck's twin sister Della in the 2017 series of DuckTales, marking the first animated appearance of the character. Brewster was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on March 10, 1969. Her mother, Hathaway Brewster (nee Tew), was a government official. Galen Brewster was her father, and was an administrator at school. Brewster was born in Massachusetts but she emigrated to New York City to study at Parsons School of Design. Her first year was the year she made her acting debut and then dropped out of design school to pursue an acting career. In the early 1990s, Brewster moved to San Francisco and began taking acting classes. Brewster hosted 65 episodes on Paget, one of the late-night talk shows in the San Francisco Bay Area. It ran on KPIX-TV from 1994 to 1995. Brewster first gained attention in her recurring role as Kathy in the fourth season of the show on NBC called Friends. Huff as well as Andy Richter Controls the Universe featured her. She played the role of the character Ms. Indestructible on film, which was the female lead of James Gunn's low-budget comic book The Specials (2000). In the independent film The Big Bad Swim (2006), she played Amy Pierson (a calculus teacher who is afraid of the ocean), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2006. In 2005, she started voice acting as Judy Sebben/Birdgirl. This was a recurring character on the animated series Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law (and later, she portrayed a similar role on American Dad! ).