Making the transition from drama to comedy has proven rewarding for
My Name is Earl star
Jaime Pressly. On Sunday, she received the Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Series, beating actresses
Conchata Ferrell (
Two and a Half Men),
Jenna Fischer (
The Office),
Elizabeth Perkins (
Weeds),
Holland Taylor (
Two and a Half Men) and
Vanessa Williams (
Ugly Betty).
Although her first roles in television were on the dramas
Push and
Jack & Jill, Pressly claims comedy feels more natural to her. "I come from a very funny family. All the Pressly men were funny… My dad would tell these great stories, where every character had a different accent ... We laughed at each other, all day," Pressly, a native of Kinston, North Carolina, said.
Jamie Pressly's father, Jim, said he is very proud of his daughter for earning her first Emmy on Sunday night.
"I'm proud of her, she didn't ever give up,” Jim told WITN, NBC's affiliate in North Carolina. “She kept right on struggling, because it wasn't easy, but last year she got nominated, this year she got nominated, but this year she won.”
On
My Name is Earl, Jaime Pressly plays Joy Turner, a “very strong-minded” woman who “says what she's thinking.” Pressly said that when she first got hold of a script of the NBC comedy series, she felt it would only work if the right actor was cast in the role.
"It read like an independent short," Pressly recalled. "I said, "This is not going to make it unless it has an amazing Earl.”
That “amazing Earl” turned out to be
Jason Lee, though the 37-year-old actor has yet to be nominated for an Emmy.
The third season of
My Name is Earl will premiere on Thursday, September 27, and Pressly had only good words to say about the show and the cast and crew.
"This year, it's like a well-oiled machine," she said. "This is this great set of people," "I think of them as like old rock stars... We laugh all day."
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Daily South Town
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