Judy Greer

Judy Greer is set to star in the sports drama film "Flint Strong". She also joined the cast of the HBO miniseries "White House Plumbers", which depicts the Watergate scandal. Greer was cast as Fran Liddy, the wife of G.

Greer was born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan, as Judith Therese Evans. She is the daughter of Mollie Ann, a hospital administrator and former nun, and Richard Evans, a mechanical engineer. She has German, Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry. After training for nearly ten years in classical Russian ballet, Greer shifted her interest to acting and was accepted into Chicago's prestigious Theater School at DePaul University.

After a variety of odd jobs during college, from telemarketer to oyster shucker, Greer landed her first on-screen role just three days after graduation a small part in the Jason Lee-David Schwimmer comedy, "Kissing a Fool." She flew to Los Angeles for the film's premiere and never left. Greer quickly landed a role in the dark comedy "Jawbreaker," with Rose McGowan and Rebecca Gayheart. Greer starred as a school wallflower-turned-babe in a story about high school girls who accidentally kill their best friend and try to cover up the murder.

Greer starred opposite Jennifer Garner in Columbia Pictures' romantic comedy, "13 Going on 30," directed by Gary Winick. Greer played an office colleague alongside Garner's character, with whom she shares a checkered past. She co-starred in writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village," opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sigourney Weaver, and William Hurt. Set in 1897, the film revolves around a close-knit community that lives with the knowledge that a mythical race of creatures resides in the woods surrounding them. The Village was released July 30, 2004, by Touchtone Pictures.