Biography
Mary Lynn Rajskub (born June 22, 1971) is an American actress and comedian, best known for her roles as Chloe O'Brian on the Fox action-thriller 24, Norah in The Tomorrow War, Theresa in Night School, Erin Roberts on the Starz series The Girlfriend Experience, Captain Davis in The Kings of Summer, Bridget Bay in Safety Not Guaranteed, Sarah in Julie & Julia, Lynn in Sunshine Cleaning, Janet Stone in Firewall, Reena Giuliani in Legally Blonde 2, Elizabeth Egan in Punch-Drunk Love, Dorothea in Swe...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Shell
2025
as Casting Director
Struggling actress Samantha is given an opportunity to get a free trial at Shell, a pioneering health and beauty company that promises to keep its cli...

Daniel's Gotta Die
2025
as Mia Powell
Daniel Powell’s plan to reconnect with his siblings hits a snag when he discovers they all want to kill him for his inheritance. As the brothers and s...

Mary Lynn Rajskub: Road Gig
2024
as Self
Mary Lynn Rajskub will take a Road Gig when it comes up. She tapes her new special just outside Chicago to a full crowd to share her stories from acti...

Mary Lynn Rajskub: Road Gig
2024
Writer
Mary Lynn Rajskub will take a Road Gig when it comes up. She tapes her new special just outside Chicago to a full crowd to share her stories from acti...

Dashing Through the Snow
2023
as Mary
Eddie Garrick is a good-hearted man who has lost his belief in the wonder of Christmas. While spending time with his nine-year-old daughter Charlotte ...

Please Baby Please
2022
as Lois
After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that aw...

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!
2021
as Producer Bryn
After 52 years of solving mysteries, the Scooby gang reunite at Warner Bros. Studios to reminisce about their favorite cases and how they were filmed....

The Tomorrow War
2021
as Norah
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is los...

Hero Mode
2021
as Laura
A teenage coding genius has just 30 days to create the world's greatest video game or his family loses everything. No pressure.

Too Late
2021
as Gina Obispo
A lonely assistant finally finds love and must escape her monster of a boss before she and her new love become his next meal.

Mary Lynn Rajskub: Live from the Pandemic
2021
as Self
Mary Lynn takes the stage- her garage, to try to make sense of her career, home life, and love life during a global pandemic.

Mary Lynn Rajskub: Live from the Pandemic
2021
Writer
Mary Lynn takes the stage- her garage, to try to make sense of her career, home life, and love life during a global pandemic.

Dinner in America
2020
as Connie
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the A...

A World Away
2019
as Principal Garcia
Six kids take a trip to the Grand Canyon, but instead find themselves in a whole other world.

Cold Brook
2019
as Rachel
Two ordinary guys in a small town embark on an extraordinary adventure, risking everything for a stranger in need.

How High 2
2019
as Ana Cheever
When two jobless friends discover a hidden weed bible and the ultimate bud, they think that they’ve got it made…with 'seed' money to start a new snack...

Benjamin
2019
as Jeanette
A family calls in an intervention for Benjamin, a kid who is doing drugs. Soon, it becomes clear that those who are confronting Benjamin's problem als...

Night School
2018
as Theresa
Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend nigh...

Comedy in Color: Ladies' Night
2018
as Mary Lynn Rajskub
Several up-and-coming comics from the next generation of female comedians deliver a series of hilarious stand-up performances.

In Search of Fellini
2017
as Kerri
Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across I...

Wilson
2017
as Jodie
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

The Last Laugh
2016
as Self
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, an...

Sex, Death and Bowling
2015
as Kim Wells
Two brothers separated by one continent and two decades reunite when one of them becomes sick with cancer.

All-Stars
2014
as Tina Travanti
"All-Stars" is a hilarious commentary on the state of all youth sports today, fueled by the outrageous behavior of the desperate sports parent living ...

Jason Nash Is Married
2014
as Erica Savage
Jason is stuck living in the shadows of his more successful wife (Busy Philipps) and two young kids. When debt threatens to destroy his family, he jum...
Play Nice
2014
as Ellen Bell
For Raquel and Peter Jacobs, getting their little boy George into the prestigious Le Chance Academy is going to be a lot harder than they expected.
Play Nice
2014
Executive Producer
For Raquel and Peter Jacobs, getting their little boy George into the prestigious Le Chance Academy is going to be a lot harder than they expected.

Showing Up
2014
as Self
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe ...

The Kings of Summer
2013
as Captain Davis
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his f...

Safety Not Guaranteed
2012
as Bridget Bay
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Backwash
2010
as Narrator (voice)
The tale of three slacker friends and the adventures that ensure after one of them inadvertently robs a bank armed only with a large salami. Many gues...

Julie & Julia
2009
as Sarah
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ...

Sunshine Cleaning
2008
as Lynn
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuiti...

Humble Pie
2007
as Peggy Orbison
At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people ...

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
as Pageant Assistant Pam
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

Grilled
2006
as Renee
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...

Firewall
2006
as Janet Stone
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a ...

Mysterious Skin
2005
as Avalyn Friesen
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Helter Skelter
2004
as Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme
The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious m...

Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
2004
as Pizza Delivery Girl ("The Good Life")
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures From the Vault 1991-2002 contains every one of Weezer's music videos from that time period (including the cla...

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
as Reena Giuliani
Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog's relatives are being used as cosmetic test...

Claustrophobia
2003
as Grace
A serial killer armed with a crossbow pistol is murdering people from their own rooftops. When three young coworkers at a poorly-attended slumber part...

Punch-Drunk Love
2002
as Elizabeth Egan
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

Sweet Home Alabama
2002
as Dorothea
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

A Film by Kirk
2002
as Girlfriend
Kirk Gleason stars in his directorial debut where he shows his love for his significant other by performing a dance for her parents.

Run Ronnie Run
2002
as Self
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.

Storytelling
2001
as Melinda
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

The Anniversary Party
2001
as Mary-Lynn
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

The Girls Guitar Club
2001
as Mary Lynn
Two women record a demo to convince a musician that they should open for him.

The Girls Guitar Club
2001
Writer
Two women record a demo to convince a musician that they should open for him.

Dude, Where's My Car?
2000
as Zelmina
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

Sunset Strip
2000
as Eileen
A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at W...

Road Trip
2000
as Blind Brenda
After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the ...

Man on the Moon
1999
as Friday's Mary
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.

Magnolia
1999
as Janet (Frank's Assistant) (voice)
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy geniu...

The Thin Pink Line
1998
as Suzy Smokestack
A film crew in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, a quirky and...

Bury Me in Kern County
1998
as Amanda
A "Cops"-styled TV show tapes the arrest of a man charged with selling home made speed. His mother, seeing the broadcast, dies of a heart attack on th...

Who's the Caboose?
1997
as Cheeseball
A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depres...

The Truth About Cats & Dogs
1996
as Female Radio Caller (voice)
A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.

The Hitman
1996
as Mary
After breaking up with her boyfriend Greg, Mary wonders if her new career might not be what she expected.

The Hitman
1996
Writer
After breaking up with her boyfriend Greg, Mary wonders if her new career might not be what she expected.
Marfa Lights
N/A
as Anita
A young salesman from the city sells solar panels to a rural community, only to realize his boss supplied faulty products. As installations fail, he f...