Cheryl Hines

Actress Cheryl Hines found television stardom while playing the tolerant and sarcastic wife to Larry David's miserable and annoying self-parody on HBO's hit comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Hines more than held her own with David, proving right away that she had a sharp and unique talent for comedy. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Cheryl began her acting career by doing improv at the Groundlings Theater, where one of her first teachers was Lisa Kudrow. She also learned to write comedy sketches, which served her well when working on Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which the plot outlines are generally and loosely drawn and the individual actors improvise to create the dialogue.

She also broadened her experience in television to include producing and voice over. She was the executive producer on the critically acclaimed improvised and award-winning comedy series Campus Ladies for the Oxygen Channel and the Starz Network's first original comedy series Hollywood Residential. Cheryl was also handpicked by Jeffrey Katzenberg as the lead voice in DreamWorks Television's primetime animated series, Father of the Pride, an innovative comedy that aired on NBC. She is currently starring in ABC's hit Suburgatory. Hines describes the show as "a loving satire, sending up the strange subculture of tanned-to-the-max denizens while never overlooking the real people who live there or why most of the country calls the suburbs home."

In 2009 she made her directorial debut at the Tribeca Film Festival with Serious Moonlight, starring Meg Ryan.

She's appeared in numerous films including The Grand, Waitress, RV, Keeping up with the Steins, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Bart Got A Room (opposite William H. Macy) and The Ugly Truth, with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. Cheryl will also appear as fairy godparent Wanda, opposite Jason Alexander, in A Fairly Odd Movie, a live-action version of the popular Nickleodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents.

Hines is also an active and passionate advocate for education and community involvement. Cheryl Hines is making it her mission to fight heart disease with the Go Red for Women campaign as their spokeswoman. “Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be,” says Hines.

She served as executive producer for the NBC reality series School Pride, which followed the renovation of a different school each week, and she serves on the Board of Trustees of United Cerebral Palsy.