Missi Pyle

In the mid-1990s, played the "black widow" character at the interactive theme restaurant, Jekyll and Hyde, in New York City.

1991 graduate of Germantown (Tennessee) High School (where Chris Parnell graduated in 1985). Appeared in school's GHS-TV cable access station and Poplar Pike Playhouse Theatre.

Missi teamed up with fellow actress Shawnee Smith, of the "Saw" franchise and "Becker" (1998), to start the band "Smith & Pyle". The band tours regularly throughout California and the West Coast as well as performing at conventions for fans. They're a smooth blend of southern rock and sarcasm.

Received an MTV Movie Awards "Best Fight" nomination alongside 'Queen Latifah' for the film Bringing Down the House (2003) in 2004.

Ranked #98 in Maxim's '100 Sexiest Women' (2004)

Was scheduled to ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, September 29, 2008 - a day when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points - but decided not to so as to "let the day be about the market and not about having a celebrity ring the bell.".

Casey Anderson's 800-pound grizzly bear, Brutus, which he raised since it was a baby, was a guest at their wedding. The couple wed on September 12, 2008 in Montana.