Brooke D'Orsay

Brooke D'Orsay (born February 17, 1982) is a Canadian actress, best known for voicing the character of Caitlin Cooke on the Teletoon animated series 6teen (2004–2010) and Brooke Mayo in the 2005 movie King's Ransom.

For American audiences, she is best known as Paige Collins-Lawson on Royal Pains and as Kate on Two and a Half Men. She played Deb on the Lifetime original series Drop Dead Diva and was in the Nickelodeon original movie The Boy Who Cried Werewolf as Paulina Von Eckberg.

Since 2017, D'Orsay has become known for her performances in Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas made-for-TV films. She also acted in a 2012 movie How to Fall in Love as Anni, a broke waitress/event planner who helps a high school friend as a 'dating coach' and falls in love in the process.

Early life D'Orsay was born on February 17, 1982, in Toronto, Ontario to Alan D'Orsay. She has a brother John and two stepbrothers from her father's subsequent marriage to Darla; Greg and Timothy, the latter of whom died in 2020. The D'Orsay family name is of Huguenot French origin where she is of French ancestry.

Career Her first major acting role was in 2001, in the movie Why Can't I Be a Movie Star? as Jennifer Kruz. She also starred in the Nickelodeon original movie The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010) as Paulina Von Eckberg and played Kate, Walden Schmidt's girlfriend, in a recurring role on Two and a Half Men in 2012–2014.

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