Phyllis Smith (born July 20, 1951) is an American celebrity. Phyllis Smith is famous for playing Phyllis Lapin-Vance on “The Office”. Phyllis Smith graduated from your University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1972 with a degree in elementary education. She was made to stop dancing after suffering a knee injury. She later worked in Hollywood, California as an actress as well as in cast. Smith was employed as a casting associate on The Office when she was offered the part of Phyllis, a character created especially for her; a softspoken saleswoman who tends to differ using the pompous office manager Michael Scott. Phyllis Smith received Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006 and 2007 for her performance at Work, in the class “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Show”. In June 2008, Smith appeared together with the cast of The Office on Celebrity Family Feud. In 2011, Phyllis Smith played a supporting character in the movie Bad Teacher.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2006, 2007)
Movies
"Inside Out" (2015), "Bad Teacher" (2011), "Butter" (2011), "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" (2011), "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With" (2006), " The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005)
TV Shows
"The Office" (2005-2013), "Trophy Wife" (2013), "The Middle" (2014), "Disney Infinity 3.0" (2015, video game)
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
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As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
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Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.
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Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.
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IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.
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Fact
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Lemay is listed as her city of birth however Lemay is an unincorporated census designated place in St. Louis County, MO.
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She has toured the country as a dancer with a Vaudeville Burlesque show, Able's Baggy Pants Burlesque and the Mercer Brother's show "Giggles Galore, not only as a dancer but a comic skit performer.
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She was a ballet dancer with The St. Louis Civic Ballet and The St. Louis Dance Theater and a professional jazz dancer under Raoul Appel.
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