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Born and raised in New York City,\u00a0Sara\u00a0Rue\u00a0spent most of her childhood backstage with her father, a Broadway stage manager.\u00a0Rue’s acting career began at age nine when she was cast as Kevin Spacey’s daughter and Burt Lancaster’s granddaughter in the film\u00a0Rocket Gibraltar<\/em>. Shortly thereafter she won critical acclaim for her television series debut in the comedy\u00a0Grand<\/em>. Since then she has appeared as a series regular on various shows, including\u00a0Phenom<\/em>,\u00a0Minor Adjustments<\/em>,\u00a0Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane<\/em>,Popular<\/em>,\u00a0Eastwick,\u00a0<\/i>and most recently, Malibu Country. She is best known for her starring role in ABC’s\u00a0Less Than Perfect<\/em>. Following that, Chuck Lorre added\u00a0Rue\u00a0for recurring appearances on\u00a0Two and a Half Men<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Big Bang Theory<\/em>. For the past two years she has had a recurring role on\u00a0Rules of Engagement<\/em>\u00a0as Brenda, Patrick Warburton’s lesbian best friend and surrogate.<\/p>\n

In features\u00a0Rue\u00a0starred as Sigourney Weaver’s cellmate in\u00a0A Map of the World<\/em>\u00a0and appeared as a scene-stealing social misfit inCan’t Hardly Wait<\/em>. She was also cast in\u00a0Pearl Harbor<\/em>\u00a0as a tough-talking nurse. Originally there was no role for the young actress, but she so impressed Michael Bay that he flew her to Hawaii, threw her in the scenes with the nurses, and told her to “improvise and be funny.” She played Lili Taylor’s best friend in the adaptation of Anne Taylor’s novel, A Slipping Down Life. That same summer she received rave reviews for her portrayal of the title character in the film\u00a0Gypsy 83<\/em>.\u00a0Rue\u00a0also played the Attorney General of the United States, opposite Luke Wilson, in the Mike Judge film\u00a0Idiocracy<\/em>. She has recently been very active in the independent film world, completing a handful of films in the past few years, including\u00a0Dorfman<\/em>, which has won multiple festivals around the country this year.<\/p>\n

On stage\u00a0Rue\u00a0starred at the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s (NYC) one-act festival two years in a row in productions of\u00a0The Shallow End<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Seventh Word, Four Syllables<\/em>. In conjunction with shooting two television pilots and a feature film in Spring 1999, she made her Los Angeles theatre debut at the Matrix Theatre in Wendy McCloud’s play,\u00a0The Water Children<\/em>. She also starred in the world premiere musical\u00a0Little Egypt<\/em>\u00a0at the Matrix Theatre, where she received tremendous praise for her portrayal of a lovable, social misfit and star-crossed lover. She later reprised that role for a short run Off-Broadway.<\/p>\n

Rue\u00a0has also begun producing film and television, recently selling her first movie as a producer to Dimension Films and selling her first half-hour pilot as the writer\/creator to Warner Brothers and the CW.<\/p>\n

In her spare time\u00a0Rue\u00a0loves to garden, play poker (mostly for charity) and hike with her husband and two dogs (both rescues). Some of her favorite charity associations are Project Angel Food, The Point Foundation, CAST, The Lily Claire Foundation and anything that helps animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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