Actress Sara Rue

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Sara Rue has been acting since she was nine years old, when she played the granddaughter of a retired Hollywood screenwriter (played by Burt Lancaster) in the 1988 family-reunion move Rocket Gibraltar.  Since then, she's done many movies, but she's become more associated with television.

Her best-known TV roles to date are as Carmen Ferrara in "Popular" and as Claudia Casey in "Less than Perfect." On "Popular," a 1999-2001 show about teenagers who were either in the "in crowd" or not, Carmen was not in the "in crowd" and was nonetheless determined to achieve her objectives.   On "Less than Perfect," which ran from 2002 to 2006, Claudia, or "Claude," as she was nicknamed, worked as an assistant to a TV anchor and felt like her work was . . . well, less than perfect.  (Anyone detect a Mary Richards influence here?)       

Ms. Rue has had a recurring role on the CBS sitcom "Mom," and she's had recurring or one-shot roles been on too many TV shows to list.

Fun fact: Ms. Rue was born Sara Schlackman. Rue is her mother's maiden name.