# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-elizabeth-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:39:36.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-elizabeth-ellis"
name: "Mary Elizabeth Ellis"
slug: "mary-elizabeth-ellis"
description: "Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring roles as The Waitress on the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present), Nick's ex-girlfriend Caroline in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2011–2018), and Lisa Palmer on the Netflix horror-comedy Santa Clarita Diet (2017–2019). She starred as Amy in the shortlived NBC sitcom Perfect Couples (2010–2011) and Debbie Sanderson in the Fox sitcom The Grinder (2015–2016). More recently, she played Gary's mother Anita in Licorice Pizza (2021), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Elizabeth_Ellis_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1979-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.23425466666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1634944/"
    handle:    "nm1634944"
sources:
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    title: "메리 엘리자베스 엘리스"
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    title: "مریم الزبتھ ایلس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump