Biography
With undergraduate literature and graduate drama degrees from Yale to her credit, Cryer worked steadily on stage as well as in film and on television, going from regional productions in Maryland and Utah to Los Angeles stages to Broadway. Among Cryer's earliest credits was a guest role on a 1992 episode of the NBC drama "Law & Order". Busy with other projects, she didn't turn up on television again for three years, returning on an episode of …
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Career Milestones
| Had a recurring role on "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place", playing Ashley, the pushy, self-possessed girlfriend of goofy Berg (Ryan Reynolds) | ||
| Made Broadway debut, reprising role of Josie in the Broadhurst Theater run of "Proposals" | ||
| Was made a regular on the revamped ABC sitcom "Two Guys and a Girl" | ||
1992 | Had early TV credit with a guest role on "Law & Order" (NBC) | |
1994 | Appeared in the Utah Shakespeare Festival staging of "As You Like It" as Rosalind | |
1994 | Featured in Billy Bob Thornton's short "Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade", the basis of his acclaimed 1996 feature "Sling Blade" | |
1995 | Acted in an episode of the short-lived CBS series "New York News" | |
1996 | Featured in the "Lifestories: Families in Crisis" presentation "Someone Had to Be Benny" (HBO), a story of a terminally ill teenager who refuses his medicine | |
1997 | Acted in Barry Levinson's political satire "Wag the Dog" | |
1997 | Featured in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum | |
1997 | Featured in the independent drama "Wilbur Falls" | |
1997 | Played the woman who introduced the phrase "yada yada" into the canon of "Seinfeld" in a particularly memorable episode of the NBC sitcom | |
1997 | Starred as Josie Hines in Neil Simon's "Proposals" on stage in Los Angeles | |
1997 | Starred in the South Coast Repertory stage production "Collected Stories" | |
1998 | Acted in the Academy Award-winning quirky independent comedy short "My Mother Dreams the Satan Disciples of New York" | |
1998 | Guest starred on "Cosby" (CBS), improvising a scene with Bill Cosby that remained in the final cut of the episode | |
1999 | Played a news anchorwoman in an episode of ABC's "It's Like, You Know..." | |
1999 | Played a pregnant young woman who won't indentify the father of her unborn child in the ensemble romantic comedy "Friends and Lovers" | |