<P> She has also appeared in various television roles, on shows such as Mad About You, Friends, Heroes, Two and a Half Men, Frasier, My Name Is Earl, 2 Broke Girls, Jennifer Falls, and Mom . She is also half of Smith & Pyle, a desert country - rock band, with actress Shawnee Smith, and has appeared in the music video for Foo Fighters' single "Run" as a nurse . </P> <P> Pyle, the youngest daughter of Linda and Frank Pyle, was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee . She has two older sisters, Debbie and Julie, two older brothers, Sam and Paul, one younger half - brother, Gordon, and a half - sister, Meredith . Pyle attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston - Salem, North Carolina and graduated in 1995 . For her achievements, Pyle was honored by the Poplar Pike Playhouse at her alma mater Germantown High School in Germantown, Tennessee . </P> <P> Pyle has guest starred on many television shows, including Heroes, Mad About You, Boston Legal, Frasier, The Sarah Silverman Program, and 2 Broke Girls . She started her film career with a minor role in As Good as It Gets, starring Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson . After her breakout role in Galaxy Quest, she had supporting roles in Bringing Down the House (for which she and Queen Latifah were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight), Josie and the Pussycats, Home Alone 4, Exposed, Big Fish, Along Came Polly, Soul Plane, Stormbreaker, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . She was also the female lead in BachelorMan . She also appears in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story . She also had a brief appearance in 50 First Dates and starred in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song . </P> <P> Pyle played Jake's Elementary School teacher Ms. Pasternak on Two and a Half Men . The role was recast in 2009 for undisclosed reasons, but Pyle returned to the series in the same role in 2011 and again in the series finale "Of Course He's Dead" in 2015 . </P>

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