Life and Career
Brown took two acting classes, one at the University of Akron, where she graduated, and the other in Hollywood.
She appeared as "Yvette" in the music video "1-4-All-4-1" by the East Coast Family a Michael Bivins project, for Biv10 Records. Said Brown of the experience, "It was a great run, but I guess music was just never meant to be for me."
Brown first appeared on commercials before entering television shows and films a few years later. She has since played roles on television shows such as The War At Home, Malcolm in the Middle, and That's So Raven. She also had a recurring role as movie theater manager Helen Dubois in the Nickelodeon TV show Drake & Josh. Brown reprised the role in the season 2 episode of Victorious entitled "Helen Back Again." She also provides the voice of "Cookie" on The Hub's Pound Puppies.
Yvette now stars on the NBC comedy Community as Shirley Bennett. Yvette is very active with fans of the show on Twitter and in person at live events. Yvette, like many people in the cast and crew, has been very thankful and supportive of the fans with their response to Community being pulled from the midseason lineup in 2012 and the wish for a fourth season. Community returned in March and finished the third season in May 2012. Community has been picked up for a shortened fourth season.
She has appeared in television commercials for Hamburger Helper, Big Lots, Pine-Sol, Comcast, Aquapod, Shout, Fiber One, Yoplait Yogurt, DiGiorno Pizza, Dairy Queen, and Time Warner. She has appeared on episodes of The Thrilling Adventure Hour as "The Troubleshooter" in the Sparks Nevada, Marshall On Mars series.
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