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Jillian Leigh Bell (born April 25, 1984) is an American actress, comedian and screenwriter. She stars in the 2019 film ''
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'' and 2022's ''I'm Totally Fine''. She starred as Jillian Belk on ''Workaholics'', voiced the role of Violet Hart in ''Bless the Harts'' and had a recurring role as Dixie on the final season of ''Eastbound & Down'', and appeared in ''22 Jump Street,'' ''Fist Fight'', and ''Godmothered''.


Early life

Bell was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas, the daughter of Tanzy and Ron Bell. She is of Romanian Americans, Romanian descent through her maternal grandmother. Bell began to study Improvisational theatre, improv at the age of eight. She graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 2002. After high school, she moved to Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, and became a member of the Groundlings.


Career

Bell is an alumnus of The Straitjacket Society in Los Angeles. She auditioned for ''Saturday Night Live.'' Although she did not join the cast, she became a writer for the show in 2009 for its Saturday Night Live (season 35), 35th season. The same year Bell appeared in an episode of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'' as an assistant who wears revealing clothing at work. In 2011, she began to play Jillian Belk on the Comedy Central series ''Workaholics''. Film director Paul Thomas Anderson noticed her in ''Workaholics'' and cast her in a small role in his 2012 film, ''The Master (2012 film), The Master'' and yet again in another small role in his 2014 film, ''Inherent Vice (film), Inherent Vice''. She had a recurring role as Dixie in the fourth and final season of ''Eastbound and Down''. In 2014, she appeared in ''22 Jump Street'' alongside Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. In 2015, she co-starred in ''Goosebumps (film), Goosebumps'' and ''The Night Before (2015 film), The Night Before''. In January 2016, Comedy Central debuted a new series, ''Idiotsitter'', in which Bell portrays the constantly misbehaving adult daughter of wealthy parents. ''Idiotsitter'' was launched as a web series in early 2014, before being picked up in June 2014 by Comedy Central for network airing. Bell starred as the List of Disney's Cinderella characters#Fairy Godmother, Fairy Godmother in Walt Disney Pictures, Disney's ''Godmothered'', which was released on Disney+.


Filmography


Film


Television


Accolades

In 2010, Bell was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for her work in the writers' room on ''Saturday Night Live''. In 2015, she was nominated for two 2015 MTV Movie Awards, MTV Movie Awards for Best Fight with Jonah Hill and Best Villain for her work on ''22 Jump Street''. In 2019, she received the List of San Diego International Film Festival award winners#SDiFF2019 2, Fairbanks Award at the San Diego International Film Festival and the Provincetown International Film Festival, Next Wave Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.


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