Paget Brewster (born March 10, 1969 in
Concord,
Massachusetts) is an
American actress.
Brewster first came to prominent attention in her recurring role as Kathy,
Joey's girlfriend (and later
Chandler's) in the fourth season of
Friends. Brewster also had a short-lived
Bay Area talk show. She appeared in
Andy Richter Controls The Universe and as Beth Huffstodt in the
Showtime series
Huff, which aired from 2004-2006. She currently is known & popular for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the
CBS crime drama
Criminal Minds.
In film, Brewster played Ms. Indestructible, the female lead in
James Gunn's low-budget superhero comedy
The Specials (2000), opposite
Thomas Haden Church and
Rob Lowe. She also played Amy Pierson, a calculus teacher afraid of the water, in the independent film
The Big Bad Swim that premiered at the 2006
Tribeca Film Festival.
