Beth Behrs Bio - Biography

Name Beth Behrs
Height 5' 5
Naionality USA
Date of Birth 26-December-1985
Place of Birth Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Famous for Acting
Behrs was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the elder daughter of David Behrs, a college president, and Maureen Behrs, a first grade teacher.She has a sister who is six years younger.Behrs moved to Lynchburg, Virginia in 1989, where she was raised.She began performing in theatre at the age of four, and played soccer while growing up.At the age of fifteen, she relocated with her family to Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.Behrs began attending Tamalpais High School in 2001, and was accepted into the school's highly regarded drama program.She studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and went on to perform in the musical Dangling Conversations: The Music of Simon and Garfunkel, and the plays Korczak’s Children and Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day.She was classically trained as a singer.Behrs moved to Los Angeles, California in 2004 to study acting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.In 2005, she played Sandy Dumbrowski in a production of Grease at San Francisco's Ray of Light Theatre, and was named Miss Marin County in 2006.She began auditioning for roles in her senior year, and graduated in 2008 with a degree in critical studies. Behrs was awarded a Young Musician's Foundation Vocal Scholarship after graduating.
Career
Behrs landed her first film role in the direct-to-video teen comedy American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, which she filmed in Vancouver for seven weeks, beginning in March 2009.The film, the seventh in American Pie series, was released on December 22,2009.She starred in the independent comedy Serial Buddies, about an inept group of serial killers, produced by TV personality Maria Menounos.The film also starred Christopher Lloyd, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Artie Lange. Behrs shot the independent feature, Route 30, Too!, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in late 2010, playing an alien girl.She has also appeared in episodes of the TV series, NCIS: Los Angeles, and ABC's Castle.Behrs stars in the CBS sitcom, 2 Broke Girls, produced by comedian Whitney Cummings and Sex and the City producer Michael Patrick King.She plays Caroline Channing, an heiress from Manhattan's Upper East Side, who is forced to become a waitress at a diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when her father is arrested for financial wrongdoing.Her character is a graduate of the Wharton School, and teams up with a cynical waitress named Max Kat Dennings in a business venture. Behrs auditioned for the part seven times. She was working as a nanny and at the Geffen Playhouse, a stage theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, when she got the role.

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