Career
Brewster had a short-lived Bay Area talk show in the mid-90s. She first came to prominent attention in her recurring role as "Kathy" in the fourth season of NBC's Friends. She appeared in Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Huff. On film, she played Ms. Indestructible, the female lead in James Gunn's low-budget superhero comedy,The Specials (2000). She played Amy Pierson, a calculus teacher afraid of the water, in the independent film The Big Bad Swim that premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2005, she began voice work as Judy Sebben/Birdgirl, a recurring character on the animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
Brewster had a long run with the show Criminal Minds playing Emily Prentiss. However, during the show's sixth season she and AJ Cook were released from their contracts by CBS in a cost-cutting move. In the end, due to complaints from the fans, both she and Cook were rehired and kept for the following season. On February 15, 2012, Brewster announced via Deadline that she is leaving Criminal Minds at the end of the season to pursue a possible career in comedy television. As of April 23, 2012, Brewster has completed filming her final episode of Criminal Minds.
Brewster's first role after Criminal Minds will be portraying a Bureau Chief ADA in the Public Integrity Unit of the District Attorney's office on NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her character will be tasked with handling the case against Special Victims Unit commanding officer, Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), who is under suspicion of murder after waking up beside a dead woman in the 13th season finale.
Brewster is a regular on The Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged production in the style of old time radio that is held monthly at the Coronet Theatre. She plays the recurring character of Sadie Doyle, the alcoholic socialite who can communicate with the supernatural alongside her husband, Frank (Paul F. Tompkins), in the "Beyond Belief" segments.
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