Eden Sher

Early life

Sher was born in Los Angeles, California on December 26, 1991 to a Jewish family. She was raised by her single mother, a school teacher. She has both an older and a younger brother and three dogs. She began her acting career at age eight by participating in school plays, local theater productions and singing in her elementary school chorus. Her interest in acting was ignited after a recording of one of her school performances and she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Career

Throughout her years as an actress, Sher has played a number of roles in television series, but many of these were short lived, as the series were either canceled or her character was eliminated. It was not until she landed a role as Sue Heck on the ABC comedy series The Middle that she gained a starring and more permanent role. Since 2009, Sher has starred in the ABC comedy series The Middle as Sue Heck, a quirky but optimistic teenager. In 2013, she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in The Middle. In 2006, she played the role of Gretchen, a middle school love interest for one of the main characters, Alexander Gould, in the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds. Later that same year, she landed the regular role of Carrie Fenton on Sons & Daughters, which was canceled 11 episodes into its first season. In 2007, Sher played a student attending Harbor High in the final season of the Fox drama series The O.C.. She also appeared in the 2001 short film Stuck and television advertisements for Capital One and Fruity Pebbles.