Background
Sara Rue was born Sara Schlackman in New York City, the daughter of Joan Schlackman (née Rue), a municipal employee and former actress, and Marc Schlackman, a stage manager.
Sara Rue was born Sara Schlackman in New York City, the daughter of Joan Schlackman (née Rue), a municipal employee and former actress, and Marc Schlackman, a stage manager.
She is best known for her performances as Carmen Ferrara on Popular, and as Claude Casey on Less than Perfect. In 2011, she hosted The CW reality series Shedding for the Wedding. She also had a regular role as Kim on the short-lived sitcom Malibu Country.
She is Jewish.
Rue began her acting career at the age of nine, appearing in the 1988 film Rocket Gibraltar as Kevin Spacey"s daughter. Rue played a very young Roseanne in the first meeting of Roseanne and Dan at a dance on the television show Roseanne. She starred in the comedy Grand, before going on to work on Phenom.
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Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane. Emergency; The Division; Popular and Less than Perfect. She has appeared in several films (A Map of the World, Can"t Hardly Wait, A Slipping Down Life, Idiocracy, Gypsy 83 and had a small part as a babysitter in Gore Verbinski"s adaptation of The Ring.
She impressed director Michael Bay so much that a role was written into the movie Pearl Harbor for her.
Rue briefly appeared in the 2006 Mike Judge film Idiocracy, in the role of the Attorney General. In 2006, Rue starred in the stage musical Little Egypt with French Stewart, Jenny O"Hara and Gregg Henry at the Matrix Theatre in Los Los Angeles
She guest-starred in Two and a Half Men as Berta"s pregnant youngest daughter. She had a stint on the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom The Big Bang Theory, playing Leonard Hofstadter"s physician girlfriend Doctor Stephanie Barnett for three episodes.
Her first appearance on the show occurred on November 17, 2008.
In 2009, Rue appeared in the movies Manitoba Maid and Foreign Christ"s Sake. She starred on the short-lived 2009 series Eastwick, based on the novel and movie The Witches of Eastwick. In October 2010, Rue joined the cast of Rules of Engagement in a recurring role as Brenda, Jeff and Audrey"s new surrogate.
lieutenant was announced in December, 2011 that Rue would be writing and starring in a new show on The CW called Poseurs, about a young woman named Lucy whose life is upended when her fiancé moves out and her fresh-from-rehab collegiate best friend, Alexandra, moves in.
The two friends pose as a lesbian couple and actually get married in order to stay in the nice apartment building that only allows married couples. Rue starred in the American Broadcasting Company show Malibu Country as Reba McEntire"s upbeat trophy wife neighbor, Kim.
She has the title role of Deb Dorfman in the movie "Dorfman in Love" (2012).