ALISON BRIE

All Is VANITIES...Nothing Is Fair

JUNE

2014

THIS MONTH

Your Media MENTOR

Craig Brown lays out

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON'S

tips toward a better you. HINT:Be more like her.

WHO Said IT?*

Arianna Buffington, M.L.K., or J.F.K.

(1) “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

(2) “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

(3) “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s an integral part of success.”

* Answers to quiz: (1) M.L.K. (2) J.F.K. (3) Arianna Huffington.

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AGE: 31. PROVENANCE: Pasadena, California, OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT: Despite growing up near Los Angeles, the TV darling, who has also appeared in films such as The Five-Year Engagement and Scream 4, describes her upbringing as a world apart. "I definitely feel like I grew up in a small town—it was not Hollywoodoriented. I was, like, a small-town theater girl OLD SCHOOL: Brie took a grassroots approach to success after she got a B.FA. degree from CalArts—doing short films at U.S.C., regional theater, and a Web series. "I ( Ways wanted to work, so by the time I graduated I got a manager and was with some tiny agency, auditioning for anything and everything." SERIAL SUCCESS: Brie has hit the TV jackpot two times over, with both her leading role as the neurotic student Annie on cult-favorite comedy series Community and a recurring dramatic role as the frustrated housewife Trudy on Mad Men. "You just never know as a recurring character when you're going to be needed, so Mad Men has always been tha >oyfrie that I am, like, way more into than I think he is into me." BUILDING A CAREER: In addition to the spring finales of both shows, and with a host of film f jets in le pipeline, Brie lent her voice to this year's animated mega-hit The Lego Movie. "The character I play is part kitten, part unicorn. In a live-action movie I might not g to play that role ... " —KRISTA SMITH