Linda Cardellini

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Linda Cardellini
Full name:	Linda Edna Cardellini
Birth date:	June 25, 1975 (age 49)
Birth place:	Redwood City, California
Occupation:	Actress Voice actress
Education:	St. Francis High School Loyola Marymount University
Parents:	Wayne David Cardellini Lorraine Herman
Children:	Lilah-Rose (b. 2012)

Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is a voice actress for Regular Show.

Early life

Linda Edna Cardellini was born on June 25, 1975, in Redwood City, California. Her parents are Wayne David, who began as a plumber before becoming a businessman, and Lorraine, a homemaker, (née Herman) Cardellini. She also has three siblings, one of them being a sister and the other two being brothers. She became interested in acting after being asked to sing in a school play when she was 10, where she played in a production of The Music Man, and she stuffed her bra to play her role: an elderly woman. She graduated high school at St. Francis High School in 1993.

Career

She made her television debut on Bone Chillers and then her film debut with the Nickelodeon film Good Burger in 1997. Later that year, she was a contestant on The Price is Right and won a fireplace. Her breakout role was playing Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks. She earned a small scholarship in Santa Clara before deciding on attending Loyola Marymount. She took a break from college to play Velma in Scooby-Doo; after filming for the movie ended she returned to Loyola, studying history, math and a women's study course later graduated college at Loyola Marymount University in 2001 with a degree in communication.

After college she continued her acting career, acting in the movie Legally Blonde, where behind the scenes her curling iron became so hot it burnt a piece of her hair and as a result, her hair was stuck up for three weeks. She also played Velma Dinkley in two live-action Scooby-Doo movies. She also was Samantha Taggart on ER from 2003 until the show ended in 2009. On Regular Show, she provides the voice of CJ. She also voiced Wendy Corduroy on Gravity Falls and plays Sylvia on Mad Men. Cardellini enjoys watching The Office, Dexter, and South Park.

Voice credits

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Season Three

1. "Yes Dude Yes"" - Cloudy J

Season Five

1. "New Year's Kiss" - Cloudy J
2. "Dodge This" - Cloudy J, Thunder Girl 2
3. "Portable Toilet" - Cloudy J, Automated Voice System
4. "Video 101" - Cloudy J
5. "I Like You Hi" - Cloudy J
6. "Play Date" - Cloudy J, Cerberus Mom 1
7. "Paint Job" - Cloudy J
8. "Take the Cake" - Cloudy J
9. "Tent Trouble " - Cloudy J
10. "Real Date" - Cloudy J

Season Six

1. "Maxin' and Relaxin'" - Cloudy J, Daphne
2. "Daddy Issues" - Cloudy J
3. "Terror Tales of the Park IV" - Cloudy J, School Girl
4. "Lift With Your Back" - Cloudy J
5. "Eileen Flat Screen" - Cloudy J
6. "Merry Christmas Mordecai" - Cloudy J
7. "Sad Sax" - Cloudy J
8. "I See Turtles" - Cloudy J
9. "Happy Birthday Song Contest" - Cloudy J
10. "1000th Chopper Flight Party" - Cloudy J
11. "Not Great Double Date" - Cloudy J, Girl 2
12. "Dumped at the Altar" - Cloudy J

Season Seven

1. "The Lunch Club" - Mrs. Chamberlain

Personal life

Outside of acting Cardellini studies martial arts and enjoys observing art. She dated Jason Segel from 2001 through 2006, who she met on the set of Dead Man on Campus, who was her co-star on Freaks and Geeks for a few years before dating an unspecified person for a couple of years afterward. After a break from dating, she began dating childhood friend, Steven Rodriguez, who met each other when she was 10 and he 11, respectively. They reconnected years later and began dating. The two have one child together, a daughter named Lilah-Rose, who was born on February 29, 2012. Cardellini and Rodriguez are currently engaged, having announced their engagement on June 7, 2013, and planning their wedding. She and her family reside in Los Angeles, California.

Trivia

• Linda Cardellini is also known for voicing Wendy in Disney's "Gravity Falls", and Megan in Nickelodeon's "Sanjay and Craig."
• Her breakout role was as Lindsey Weir in "Freaks and Geeks,"
• Her highest-grossing film where she had a major role in the live-action "Scooby-Doo" movie where she plays Velma,
• She had a minor role in the 2015 summer blockbuster "Avengers: Age of Ultron," where she played Laura Barton, Hawkeye's wife.

External links

• Wikipedia article on Linda Cardellini
• Linda Cardellini's Twitter