Background
Behrs was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of David Behrs, a college administrator, and Maureen Behrs, a first grade teacher.
Behrs was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of David Behrs, a college administrator, and Maureen Behrs, a first grade teacher.
Behrs studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and went on to perform in the musical Dangling Conversations: The Music of Simon and Garfunkel, and the plays Korczak’s Children, and A Bright Room Called Day. She began auditioning for roles in her senior year and graduated in 2008 with a degree in critical studies.
She plays Caroline Channing in the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom 2 Broke Girls. She has a sister who is six years younger. Behrs moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1989, where she was raised.
She began performing in theater at the age of four, and played soccer while growing up.
She was a student at East.C. Glass High School. At age 15, Behrs relocated with her family to Marin County, California.
She began attending Tamalpais High School in 2001, and was accepted into the school"s highly regarded drama program She was classically trained as a singer.
Behrs moved to Los Angeles, California in 2004, to study acting at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television.
In 2005, she played Sandy Dumbrowski in a production of Grease at San Francisco"s Ray of Light Theatre, and was named Mission Marin County in 2006. Behrs was awarded a Young Musician"s Foundation Vocal Scholarship after graduating. Behrs landed her first film role in the teen comedy American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, which she filmed in Vancouver for seven weeks beginning in March 2009.
The seventh in the American Pie series, the film was released direct-to-video on December 22, 2009.
She next starred in Adventures of Serial Buddies, an independent comedy about an inept group of serial killers produced by television personality Maria Menounos. The film also starred Christopher Lloyd, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Artie Lange.
In late 2010, Behrs shot the independent feature, Route 30, Too!, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, playing an alien girl. Behrs began working in television with guest appearances on NCIS: Los Angeles and American Broadcasting Company"s Castle.
In 2011, she was working as a nanny and at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, when she auditioned for the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom 2 Broke Girls.
She landed the lead role after seven auditions. Behrs stars as Caroline Channing, an heiress from Manhattan"s Upper East Side, who is forced to become a waitress at a diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after her father is arrested for financial wrongdoing. Her character is a graduate of the Wharton School who teams up with a waitress named Max (Kat Dennings) in a business venture.
The series is produced by comedian Whitney Cummings and Sex and the City-producer Michael Patrick King.
In March 2015, Columbia Broadcasting System renewed the series for a fifth season. In 2013, Behrs appeared on lieutenant"s a Brad, Brad World, a Bravo reality television series featuring fashion stylist Brad Goreski.
Behrs was also a presenter at the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards. She voiced sorority girl Carrie Williams in the Pixar animated film Monsters University.
The film is a prequel to 2001"s Monsters, Incorporated. and opened on June 21, 2013.
She starred alongside Sally Field and Max Greenfield in the independent comedy, Hello, My Name Is Doris, directed by Michael Showalter. In May 2016, Behrs will make her New York stage debut at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Halley Feiffer"s comedic play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City. As of 2014, Behrs is in a relationship with actor Michael Gladis.
They appeared in a short film together, The Argument, written and directed by the comedy duo HoltandSteele for the website Funny or Die.
Inspired by X-Men comics, the webcomic explores themes such as sexuality, feminism and environmental issues.
