Zoe-perry

Perry is she is Chicago native she was born into Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Perry. Two of her earliest television appearances were Jackie Harris on ABC's sitcom Roseanne. Her mother portrayed the role. In fear of stress, her parents did not want to see performing before turning age 18. Perry says she didn't want to become an actor during highschool but decided to start acting as a social activity during her time at Northwestern University when she switched from Boston University. Perry following her graduation from Boston University, relocated to New York in search of television roles. Her small part was on shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent. However, homesickness brought her back to California in search of theater jobs. In 2013 she performed in The Other Place on Broadway along with her mother. The father of her Kevin McKidd performed in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prizewinning drama Anna Christie with her in 2015. In 2016, Perry appeared on nine episodes on ABC's drama The Family. In 2017 she had her own recurring part on the ABC drama about politics Scandal with her father. The same year the actress was selected to play a younger model of Mary Cooper (Sheldon Cooper's mother) on Young Sheldon, a spin-off of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory again portraying a younger version of her mother's character. Despite her family link to the character, she was offered the part through an audition.