Paget Brewster (born March 10, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American actress. She appeared in the short-lived comedy series Andy Richter Controls The Universe and is also known for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.
Brewster first came to prominent attention in her recurring role as Kathy, Joey's girlfriend (and later Chandler's) in the fourth season of Friends. Brewster had a short-lived Bay Area talk show and was a bartender at the late Andy Boy's Drunk Tank in San Francisco. She also appeared in Andy Richter Controls The Universe and as Beth Huffstodt in the Showtime series Huff, which aired from 2004-2006.
In film, Brewster's most notable role is Ms. Indestructible, the female lead in James Gunn's low-budget superhero comedy The Specials (2000), opposite Thomas Haden Church and Rob Lowe. She also played Amy Pierson, a calculus teacher afraid of the water, in the independent film The Big Bad Swim that premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2005, Brewster began voice work as a recurring character on the animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as Judy Sebben/Birdgirl.
On the March 30, 2006 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Brewster revealed that she had recently received a handwritten note indicating Hugh Hefner would like her to pose for Playboy. She seriously considered the offer but eventually turned it down for career reasons, even though her parents gave her their blessing and she said that she admired Playboy more than magazines such as Maxim and FHM. She has, however, photographed spreads of other models for the website Suicide Girls. Brewster was also known as a retro pin-up model in the Los Angeles area, as well as a retro photographer. Both her modelling and photography work was frequently seen in Barracuda Magazine.
Brewster has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program.
She is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.
Filmography
* Criminal Minds as Emily Prentiss (48 episodes, 2006-2009)
* American Dad! as Thundercat /(7 episodes, 2005-2008)
* Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as Birdgirl /(8 episodes, 2005-2007)
* Sublime (2007) (V) as Andrea
* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sheila Tierney (1 episode, 2007)
* A Perfect Day (2006) (TV) as Allyson Harlan
* Stacked as Charlotte (3 episodes, 2005-2006)
* Unaccompanied Minors (2006) as Valerie Davenport
* Kidney Thieves (2006) as Melinda
* Huff as Beth Huffstodt (24 episodes, 2004-2006)
* The Big Bad Swim (2006) as Amy Pierson
* Cyxork 7 (2006) as Bethany Feral
* Drawn Together (1 episode, 2006)
* Lost Behind Bars (2006) (TV) as Lauren Wilde
* Duck Dodgers as Rona Vipra (2 episodes, 2005)
* Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution (2005) (TV) as Carol Carter
* My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005) .... Julianne
* Man of the House (2005/I) as Binky
* Two and a Half Men as Jamie Eckleberry (1 episode, 2005)
* Andy Richter Controls the Universe as Jessica Green (19 episodes, 2002-2004)
* Eulogy (2004) as Aunt Lily
* Rock Me, Baby as Debbie (1 episode, 2004)
* Time Belt as Colonel Jocelyn Anchor (1 episode, 2003)
* Brainwarp (2003) (V) as Lipstikk
* The Snobs (2003) (TV)
* Now You Know (2002) as Lea
* George Lopez as Ginger (1 episode, 2002)
* Raising Dad as Tracy (1 episode, 2001)
* Skippy (2001) as Julie Fontaine
* DAG as Patti Donovan (1 episode, 2001)
* Last Dance (2001) (TV)
* Agent 15 (2001) as Agent 15
* Hollywood Palms (2001) as Phoebe
* The Trouble with Normal as Claire Garletti (11 episodes, 2000)
* One True Love (2000) (TV) as Tina
* The Specials (2000) as Ms. Indestructible
* The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) as Jenny Spy
* Star Patrol (2000) (TV) as Rachel Striker
* Love & Money as Allison Conklin (1 episode, 1999)
* The Expert (1999) TV series as Lead (unknown episodes)
* Desperate But Not Serious (1999) as Frances
* Max Q (1998) (TV) as Rena Winter
* Godzilla: The Series (1998) TV series as Audrey Timmonds (unknown episodes)
* Let's Talk About Sex (1998/I) as Michelle
* Friends as Kathy (6 episodes, 1997-1998)
