Missy Doty is an American

United States

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 actress. She grew up in Springdale, Ohio

Springdale, Ohio

As of the census of 2000, there were 10,563 people, 4,421 households, and 2,816 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,131.0 people per square mile . There were 4,607 housing units at an average density of 929.4 per square mile...

 and graduated from Princeton High School in 1990. She also attended Stephens College

Stephens College

Stephens College is a women's college located in Columbia, Missouri. It is the second oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college in the United States. It was founded on August 24, 1833 as the Columbia Female Academy. In 1856, David H. Hickman turned it into a college,...

 where she received a BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 in Musical Theater.

Professional

Pursuing a career in acting throughout the 1990s, Doty began playing several minor roles in a number of television programs, for example in Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...

and Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...

.

Doty became well-recognized with her performance in the dark comedy/drama film Sideways

Sideways

Sideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to...

(2004), playing the minor, yet crucial, role of Cammi, the corpulent white trash

White trash

White trash is an American English pejorative term referring to poor white people in the United States, suggesting lower social class and degraded living standards...

 waitress with whom a main character, Jack, copulates before getting caught in flagrante delicto

In flagrante delicto

In flagrante delicto or sometimes simply in flagrante is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence...

by her cuckolded husband.

Doty has a recurring role as Jess, a lesbian bartender at The Alibi Room on the Showtime series Shameless.

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