Zoe-perry

Perry is she is Chicago native, she was born into Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Perry. The character Jackie Harris was played by her mother in both the two episodes she appeared on Roseanne. Perry did not decide to consider a career in acting until after she had reached adulthood, as her parents were worried about the detrimental consequences stress can be a cause of. Perry claimed that she was nervous to be an actor in high school but began doing shows at Northwestern University as a way to make friends after transferring to the university from Boston University. Perry started her acting career with New York after graduation, getting small parts on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. But homesickness made Perry return to California and find work as a theater actress. Perry's mother and I appeared on Broadway with her as part of The Other Place, in 2013. Perry was in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Christie and Kevin McKidd. This was presented at West Los Angeles' Odyssey Theatre Ensemble. In 2016, Perry appeared on nine episodes of ABC's thriller The Family. In 2017, she played a recurring role on the ABC political thriller Scandal with her father. The character she played was a younger Mary Cooper (Sheldon Cooper's mother) in Young Sheldon. This spin-off series of CBS's The Big Bang Theory was another younger portrayal of her mother. The role was offered to her through an open audition despite having a connection to this character.