- Missi teamed up with fellow actress Shawnee Smith, of the Saw franchise and Becker (1998), to start the band Smith & Pyle. The band tours regularly throughout California and the West Coast as well as performing at conventions for fans. They are a smooth blend of southern rock and sarcasm.
- Trained in Tae Kwon Do.
- Was scheduled to ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on September 29, 2008 - a day when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points - but decided not to so as to "let the day be about the market and not about having a celebrity ring the bell".
- In 2004, she received an MTV Movie Awards "Best Fight" nomination alongside Queen Latifah for the film Bringing Down the House (2003).
- Attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- Casey Anderson's 800-pound grizzly bear, Brutus, which he raised since it was a baby, was a guest at their wedding. The couple wed on September 12, 2008 in Montana.
- In the mid-1990s, she played the "black widow" character at the interactive theme restaurant, Jekyll and Hyde, in New York City.
- Attended and graduated from Germantown (Tennessee) High School in 1991, which is where Chris Parnell graduated in 1985. She appeared in the school's GHS-TV cable access station and Poplar Pike Playhouse Theatre.
- She has four older siblings: Debbie Pyle, Julie Pyle, Sam Pyle and Paul Pyle. She also has half-siblings Gordon Pyle and Meredith Pyle.
- Her maternal grandmother was the daughter of Swedish immigrants.
- Ranked #98 in Maxim magazine's 100 Hot Women of 2004 list.
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