Jaime Pressly

Jaime Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom "My Name Is Earl," for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards (winning one) as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in films such as "Joe Dirt," "DOA: Dead or Alive" and "I Love You, Man."

Pressly attended Costa Mesa High School in California, where her mother had moved while her parents were going through a divorce. By age 14, she had appeared on her first cover (Teen Magazine) and had become the official spokesmodel for the International Cover Model Search and soon after began to get recognition for modeling in the USA, as well as in Italy and Japan. Pressly subsequently sought and succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at the age of 15, so she could travel to Japan as neither of her parents could make the trip.

Pressly starred as Violet in the 1997 film "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction." In 1998 she starred as Nikki on the short-lived TV series "Push" and also played a recurring role as the undead assassin Mika in the TV action series "Mortal Kombat: Conquest." From 1999 to 2001, Pressly starred as Audrey on the drama series "Jack and Jill." Pressly starred in the independent film "Poor White Trash," playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake. She subsequently appeared in a number of films, including "Not Another Teen Movie" (playing Priscilla, a high school cheerleader) and "Torque," as a crazed, motorcycle-riding criminal.

Pressly guest starred in episodes of several TV shows. In an episode of the WB series "Charmed," she played Mylie, a mermaid trying to find love; (Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe, later guest starred on My Name is Earl). Other series in which Pressly guest starred were "The Twilight Zone," "Fastlane," "Las Vegas," "Becker," "Night Man" and "Silk Stalkings." She also appeared in an episode of the prank series "Punk'd."

In 2005, Pressly was cast in the NBC sitcom "My Name Is Earl" as Joy Turner. In 2007 she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the show. She has also been nominated for several other awards.

In 2010 she became the spokesperson for the "AXE Detailer Will Clean Your Dirty Balls" ad campaign for AXE Shower Gel. The ad employs double entendres, talking to men, but showing different types of sports equipment/balls.

In 2013, TV Land announced that Pressly was cast in the lead role for "Jennifer Falls" as Jennifer Doyle, a mother of a teenaged daughter, who must move in with Doyle's mother after being fired from a high-paying job.