25 Things You Didn't Know About Alison Brie

At the intersection of cool and funny, you find Alison Brie, the featured attraction on two of TV's biggest cult hits, Mad Men (that's the cool) and Community (the funny).

Interestingly enough, on both shows, Brie plays an uptight character, which is at odds with the real Alison. This 30-year-old California native likes so many things that we find so likeable—nudity, streaking, playing classic rock covers, rapping like a white girl. Truth be told, we're only scratching the surface with Alison.

There are plenty of cool and funny girls out there (no, there are, you're just not looking hard enough), but very few of them are as capital-S Sexy as Brie. In the years to come, as she takes over the planet one person's mind at a time, we'll look back at this as a strange time, when we still had to explain that Alison Brie is not the characters she's famous for playing.

Alison Brie... Alison Brie... isn't she that prissy housewife on Mad Men? Isn't she that high-strung geek girl on Community?

If that's all you know about her, then you need to know more. Here are 25 things you don't know about Alison Brie.

In high school, she performed as a clown for kids' birthdays. The company she worked for was based out of Compton, and her clown name was Sunny.

Growing up, Brie would put on shows for her family, including a fake ad for "edible wieners," for which she'd only wear a trenchcoat and a hot dog between her legs.

The English accent she cultivated for The Five Year Engagement was so convincing it fooled producer Judd Apatow into thinking she was actually British.

She plays in a cover band with Julianna Guill and Cyrina Fiallo called The Girls. Their set list includes "These Girls" by Childish Gambino, who is the rap persona of Donald Glover, Brie's Community co-star.

Both Trudy and Annie are partially based on Alison's older sister Lauren, a financial adviser whom Alison says is

She sometimes has to film scenes for both Community and Mad Men on the same day.

She liked to go naked a lot while a student at CalArts. To cheer her roommate up, she would take off all her clothes and swing from a tree outside their dorm room's window.

Her first acting experience was playing Dorothy's dog Toto at the Los Feliz Jewish Community Center's production of The Wizard of Oz.

A candid video of her singing karaoke with Five Year E

Brie is not her given last name; she was born Alison Brie Schermerhorn.

Her first TV gig was the 2006 Hannah Montana episode, "It's My Party and I'll Lie if I Want To."

She was once approached by a foot-fetishizing stranger in a grocery store who complimented her on her feet and offered to give her a "totally platonic foot massage."

She was playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet at the Rubicon Theater in Ventura, CA, when she got the part of Trudy Campbell on Mad Men.

She listens to "hardcore rap" to psych herself up for auditions.

She has made the list of "100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces in the World," compiled by TC Candler, in each of the last four years, ranking 18th (2009), 5th (2010), 40th (2011), and 26th (2012).

She studied for a time at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Her mother, Joanne Brenner-Leishman, was a teacher at a community college and served as the Director of Early Childhood Services for Para Los Ninos, an L.A.-based nonprofit.

There is a Tumblr blog dedicated to her breasts: fuckyeahalisonbriesboobs.tumblr.com

She enjoys shooting guns at the L.A. Gun Club, a hobby she picked up from a Texan boyfriend. She says her parents a

The image of her as Captain America was made by wishful fan joshwmc, a

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She did a photo shoot with Community co-star Gillian Jacobs for GQ in 2011; although comfortable with the Bettie Page theme, they declined to use a ball gag when offered.

She says she does not eat red meat or pork.

She says the role she'd most like to try, but hasn't, is "a mental patient."

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