Education
Brown studied communication studies at the University of Akron and graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 1994.
Brown studied communication studies at the University of Akron and graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Communication in 1994.
Brown has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows, and films throughout her career. She starred as Shirley Bennett on the National Broadcasting Company comedy series Community. She had a recurring role on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh as Helen Dubois, and voiced the character Cookie on the American-Canadian animated series Pound Puppies.
Brown currently stars as Dani in the 2015 version of The Odd Couple on Columbia Broadcasting System. Brown has also had small guest roles in television shows such as That 70"s Show, The Office, Boston Legal, Chuck, and The Soul Manitoba
In addition to television, she has had supporting roles in films such as (500) Days of Summer, Tropic Thunder, Repo Men, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Brown was born in East Cleveland, Ohio.
She became a sister of the Delta Pi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha as an undergrad at the university. After graduating, Brown took acting classes in Hollywood, Los Los Angeles
Brown appeared as "Yvette" in the music video "1-4-All-4-1" by the East Coast Family, a Michael Bivins project, for Biv10 Records.
Brown said of the experience, "lieutenant was a great run, but I guess music was just never meant to be for medical "
Brown first appeared on commercials before entering television shows and films a few years later. She has since played roles on television shows such as The War At Home, Malcolm in the Middle, That"s So Raven, and the United States version of The Office. She also had a recurring role as movie theater manager Helen Dubois in the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh.
Brown reprised the role in the season 2 episode of Victorious titled "Helen Back Again".
She also provided the voice of Cookie on The Hub"s Pound Puppies. In 2009, Brown began starring as Shirley Bennett on the comedy series Community.
In her announcement she said, "My dad needs daily care and he needs medical The idea of being away 16 hours a day for five months, I couldn"t do lieutenant
lieutenant was a difficult decision for me to make, but I had to choose my dad."
She has appeared in television commercials for Hamburger Helper, Big Lots, Pine-Sol, Comcast, Aquapod, Shout, Fiber One, Yoplait Yogurt, DiGiorno Pizza, Dairy Queen, and Time Warner.
She has appeared on episodes of The Thrilling Adventure Hour as "The Troubleshooter" in the Sparks Nevada, Marshall On Mars series. In 2012, Brown appeared as a celebrity contestant on GSN"s version of The Pyramid with her fellow Community co-star Danny Pudi. In 2014, it was reported that Brown is set to recur on the upcoming United States of America Network series Benched.
In addition to Brown, the cast also includes Molly Shannon, Eliza Coupe, and Jay Harrington.
Shortly after her exit of Community, Brown"s role of Dani on the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom The Odd Couple was upgraded to series regular.