Laurie Metcalf

Laura Elizabeth Laurie Metcalf is an American actress. She is known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne and has also had series television roles as Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives and Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. Her motion picture roles include the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and the character Debbie LoomisDebbie Salt in Scream 2, as well as roles in such critically acclaimed films as Making Mr. Right, JFK, and Mistress. Metcalf frequently works in Chicago theater, where she is known for her performance in the 1983 revival of Lanford Wilsons play Balm in Gilead. She has also appeared in commercials for Plan USA, a humanitarian organization which helps children in need around the world.

Metcalf was born in Carbondale, Illinois, the eldest of three children, with her brother James, and sister Linda, and was raised in Edwardsville, Illinois, which she has said isnt anywhere near a theatre. Her father, James, was the budget director at Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville at the time of his sudden death in 1984, and her mother, Libby, was a librarian. Her greataunt was the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Zo Akins. Metcalf is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976. She worked as a damn good secretary while in college and thoroughly enjoyed seeing a pile of paper in the todo box on one side of her desk move over to the completed side by the end of the day, as she often zoned in on the task at hand and worked through lunch. She originally majored in German thinking she could work as an interpreter and then in Anthropology before accepting that majoring in Theatre was her true passion, and has said that theatre work also involves the interpreting and stud

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