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Cheryl Hines
Hines at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011
Born	Cheryl Ruth Hines (1965-09-21) September 21, 1965 (age 59) Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Other names	Cheryl Ruth Hines
Occupation(s)	Actress, director, producer
Years active	1993–present
Television	Curb Your Enthusiasm Suburgatory Father of the Pride
Spouse	Paul Young (2002–2010; 1 child)

Cheryl Ruth Hines (born September 21, 1965) is an American actress, comedian, producer and director, known for her role as Larry David's wife Cheryl on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards. She is currently starring as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory. In 2009, she made her directorial debut with Serious Moonlight.

Early life

Hines was born Cheryl Ruth Hines in Miami Beach, Florida, a daughter of James and Rosemary Hines.

Part of the family came from Frostproof, Florida, but she grew up in Tallahassee, where she was a member of the Young Actors Theatre throughout high school. Hines also attended Lively Technical Center and Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee. She was raised Catholic and has two brothers and a sister. She attended West Virginia University and Florida State University before graduating from the University of Central Florida.

Career

Before getting her break in Hollywood, Hines worked as a waitress, television reporter, and telephone operator, as well as personal assistant to Rob Reiner, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Though Reiner did not play a critical role in her career, he would watch her shows when she began acting. She would guest appear on TV shows such as Swamp Thing and Unsolved Mysteries.

Hines began her acting career by doing improvisational comedy at The Groundlings Theater. Among the people she studied with was Lisa Kudrow. She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well when working on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's fictional wife, Cheryl. The show is written using the retroscripting technique, in which the plot outlines are generally and loosely drawn, and the individual actors improvise to create the dialogue.

"When the show first came out, people from Tallahassee thought, 'Well, maybe Cheryl got married'", she recalls of the show's initial reception. "Sometimes, I do feel like I live two lives." Hines received Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2003 and 2006. Speaking about being cast on the show, Hines has said that "Until Curb, I’d done small roles, really small roles. They wanted to cast an unknown actress. It worked in my favor that I hadn’t done anything. It changed my life."

In movies, she was one of the stars of RV opposite Robin Williams, Waitress with Keri Russell, and the 2008 mockumentary comedy The Grand, a spoof of the World Series of Poker. Her 2009 directorial debut Serious Moonlight stars Meg Ryan with a script by the late Adrienne Shelly, Hines's co-star in Waitress.

During the 2009-2010 season of Brothers and Sisters, she guest-starred as Kitty Walker McCallister's campaign manager, Buffy.

It was announced in July 2010 that Hines would be joining the cast of the new Nickelodeon films based on their series The Fairly Oddparents, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up Timmy Turner! and A Fairly Odd Christmas. She served as Wanda, the main character's (Timmy's) godmother.

Hines serves as the executive producer for the 2010 reality series School Pride, which follows the renovation of a different school each week.

Hines is currently starring as Dallas Royce on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory.

Personal life and Charities

Hines married Paul Young, founder of the management firm Principato-Young, on December 30, 2002. They have one child, daughter Catherine Rose Young. On July 20, 2010, Hines and Young filed papers for their divorce after nearly eight years of marriage.

Discovering her nephew born with cerebral palsy, Hines contacted United Cerebral Palsy for answers and resources. Overtime, she began getting involved with UCP and using her celebrity status to help elevate their visibility. Hines serves on the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy.

Credits

Awards and nominations

References

1. The Washington Post Company (2007-05-10). "Cheryl Hines balances tragic with the comic". MSNBC. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
2. ^ Moore, Roger (2007-05-24). "Improv skills earn Hines some really big winners". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
3. "The Accidental Shiksa". Heeb. 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2011-07-274. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
4. Heeb Magazine, Issue #15, Features
5. Awards for Cheryl Hines
6. More ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’? Cheryl Hines bets against it
7. "Exclusive: Nickelodeon Orders Live-Action Movie Adaptation of The Fairly Oddparents". TVGuide.com.
8. "NBC Empowers Communities to Take Charge and Transform Their Broken Schools in New Two-Hour Special 'School Pride'". The Futon Critic. January 10, 2010. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
9. 'Curb' star cast in new comedy pilot, Digital Spy, Mar 12 2011 By Tom Ayres
10. "Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines Getting Divorced". TVGuide.com. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
11. "Cheryl Hines - Interview". ABILITY Magazine (Cheryl Hines Issue). 2008. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

External links

• Cheryl Hines on "Larry King Now"

• Cheryl Hines at IMDb
• Cheryl Hines interviewed by Adam Carolla
• Cheryl Hines - Meet the Grand Marshal of the Springtime Tallahassee Grande Parade

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