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Phyllis Smith (born July 10, 1951) is an American film and television actress who is best known for playing Phyllis Vance (née Lapin) on The Office

Biography[]

Smith was born in Lemay, Missouri, outside St. Louis. She graduated from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1972 with a degree in elementary education.[1] In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked as a dancer, a cheerleader for the old St. Louis football Cardinals, and a burlesque performer ("No stripping, but I did wear feathers," says Smith). She was forced to quit dancing after suffering a knee injury. Smith later worked in Hollywood as an actress and in casting; she was working as a casting associate on The Office when she was offered the role of Phyllis, a character created specifically for her—a sassy woman who tends to disagree with the pompous office manager Michael Scott. Smith received Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2006 and 2007 for her performance in The Office, in the category "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series".

On June 24, 2008, Smith appeared with the cast of The Office on Celebrity Family Feud.

Partial filmography[]

Notes and Trivia[]

  • Her western zodiac sign is Cancer and her Chinese zodiac sign is a Rabbit.
  • She's 5' 5½" (1,66 m)

Personal quotes[]


IMDb's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

—Phyllis Smith

Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.

—Phyllis Smith

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

—Phyllis Smith

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.

—Phyllis Smith

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.

—Phyllis Smith


Sources[]

References[]

^ Tracy, Linda (Fall 2008). "It's never just another day at the office for UM-St. Louis alumna Phyllis Smith". UM St. Louis (St. Louis, MO: University of Missouri-St. Louis): 14–15. OCLC 19214058. http://www.umsl.edu/services/creative/pubs/magazine/index.htm.

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