Zoe-perry

Perry was born in Chicago to the actors Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Perry. She first appeared on TV as Jackie Harris, a character that was played by her mother on her role on the ABC show Roseanne. However, her parents did not allow her to play until she reached the age of adulthood because of how stress can impact on their child. Perry was shy in high-school and did not act. She began acting at Northwestern University to gain friends upon her transfer to the university from Boston University. Perry was able to begin her acting career in New York after graduation, having minor roles in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. However, her home-sickness forced Perry move back to California and find work as a theater actress. Perry was a part of Broadway in The Other Place with her mother in the year 2013. In 2015 she performed alongside her father as well as Kevin McKidd in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Anna Christie on the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles. In 2016, Perry appeared on nine episodes on ABC's drama The Family. Perry was a regular character in the ABC politics drama Scandal, starring her dad. In the same year, she portrayed a younger version of Mary Cooper on Young Sheldon (a CBS spinoff The Big Bang Theory) in which she played her mother in a younger version. Despite the fact that she has a connection with her family to the character, she was offered the part through an audition.