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Phyllis Smith
Highest Rated: 98% Inside Out (2015)
Lowest Rated: 34% Butter (2011)
Birthday: Jul 10, 1951
Birthplace: Lemay, Missouri, USA
Originally a dancer by trade, actress Phyllis Smith segued into acting success purely by chance. Her dancing career, which included stints as a professional football cheerleader and a burlesque performer, ended suddenly with a knee injury, prompting a foray into the world of television casting that ultimately led to a regular job on the other side of the camera. Smith later came to prominence with NBC's smash comedy "The Office" (NBC, 2005-2013) after the bespectacled and bouffant brunette charmed producers. With her hilarious deadpan double-takes, she eventually wooed primetime audiences as the unassuming, chipper paper saleswoman Phyllis Lapin, one of the hapless drone office workers at the Scranton, Pennsylvania-based paper company, Dunder-Mifflin.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | 96% | Inside Out 2 | Sadness (Voice) | - | 2024 |
| 80% | 59% | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar | Delores (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Riley's First Date? | Sadness (Voice) | - | 2015 |
| 98% | 89% | Inside Out | Sadness (Voice) | $2.0M | 2015 |
| 34% | 44% | Butter | Nancy (Character) | $70.9K | 2011 |
| 45% | 36% | Bad Teacher | Lynn Davies (Character) | $100.3M | 2011 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81% | 89% | The Office |
Phyllis Vance (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2005-2013 2023-2024 |
| 84% | 84% | The OA | Elizabeth '`Betty" Broderick-Allen (Character) | 2016 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Ms. Huff (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 76% | 76% | Trophy Wife | Mrs. Steinberg (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrity Family Feud | Contestant | 2008 |
| 75% | 85% | Arrested Development | Carla (Guest Star) | 2005 |