- Born
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Phyllis Smith is an American actress from Missouri who is known for playing Phyllis Vance from The Office and Sadness from Inside Out. She also acted in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The OA. She also works for the casting department of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City and Roswell.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates
- ParentsGlenda Smith
- She was a ballet dancer with The St. Louis Civic Ballet and The St. Louis Dance Theater and a professional jazz dancer under Raoul Appel.
- She is a former St. Louis Cardinals Cheerleader.
- She has toured the country as a dancer with a Vaudeville Burlesque show, Able's Baggy Pants Burlesque and the Mercer Brother's show "Giggles Galore, not only as a dancer but a comic skit performer.
- Smith's first paid acting credit was as an extra in the 1980 sports-comedy film, Caddyshack (1980).
- In 2021, she was the celebrity spokeswoman for JoAnn Fabrics.
- IMDb's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.
- Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.
- Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.
- As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.
- In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
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