In a profile, The New Yorker, describing this phase of her career, asserted: "She is typically cast on the strength of her looks and her Southern sassiness, and she has had girlfriend roles in several forgettable teensploitation flicks". She next portrayed a crazed, motorcycle-riding criminal in the action thriller Torque (2004), alongside Ice Cube. Felix Vasquez of Cinema Crazed regarded it as a guilty pleasure and stated: " does what she can with her character and comes off as a rather charming character". In 2002, Pressly starred as a college student trapped in a haunted island in the independent horror film Demon Island. The parody film Not Another Teen Movie, most notably, featured her as Priscilla, a high school cheerleader, while she took on the roles of a teen wife in the sex comedy Tomcats and that of a Southern love interest in the comedy Joe Dirt, opposite David Spade. Pressly headlined the independent film Poor White Trash (2000), playing scheming gold-digger Sandy Lake, and appeared in three 2001 theatrical releases aimed at a teenage audience, which despite varying degrees of success, helped her receive more exposure.
She went on to play one of the leads in Jack and Jill, which aired for two seasons, from September 26, 1999, to April 15, 2001, on the WB Network. Television appearances followed, with guest-roles in the short-lived Push and Mortal Kombat: Conquest. Acting career Early roles, 1997–2004 Īfter making an uncredited appearance in Baywatch in 1995, followed by filming a cameo in the film Mercenary in 1996, Pressly starred as Violet, a vengeful seductress, in the 1997 direct-to-DVD film Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, the third installment of the Poison Ivy series. She succeeded in having herself legally emancipated from her parents at 15 so she could travel to Japan, as neither of her parents could make the trip. At 15, she dropped out of school and went to Japan on a modeling contract. At age 14, she appeared on her first cover, Teen Magazine, and became the spokesmodel for the International Cover Model Search.
She spent her childhood and early teenage years training as a gymnast, which led her to modeling jobs. In 1992, she moved with her family to Costa Mesa, California, where she spent the first semester of her high school sophomore year. Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue (née Smith), a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman.
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