Dot Jones
Dorothy -Marie "Dot" Jones ( born January 4, 1964 in Turlock, California) is an American actress and former athlete.
Youth and Sports
Dot Jones, and Dot -Marie Jones, grew up as the youngest of six children in Hilmar, California and has already participated in their youth to strength sports events. After a growth spurt by almost 18 cm (7 inches) to 1.93 m, she started weightlifting, initially to strengthen their weakened back. In 1983, operational Jones Armwrestling and won at the age of 19 years, the first of their total of 15 world titles, in addition she earned nine national championship titles.
After high school, Jones attended Modesto Junior College and Fresno State University, for funding it received an athletics scholarship. In addition to weight lifting and Armwrestling Jones joined also in the shot put. In this sport, it belonged to the All-American selection and was national champion of California from 1983 and 1984 and set the national record in the junior - college age group, which had existed from 1983 to 1990. 1988 qualified Jones himself. For the Summer Olympics in shot put
Throughout her athletic career, Jones moved to eleven knee injury and is only 1,91 m tall. A knee surgery will compensate this again. In addition to sports, she worked as a youth counselor in the youth prison.
Acting Career
First acting experience gathered Jones in 1992 in the race broadcast Knights and Warriors in which she appeared as Lady Battleaxe to this role, Jones was persuaded by Shirley E son of American Gladiators. Deals for professional wrestling, she refused, because it was her to put ( "too fakey ").
In the following years she had various roles as extras in a 1994 episode of the TV series Full House as well as smaller appearances in movies and series. Mostly they played roles that were occupied according to their physical stature. In the series Married with Children, she played recurring in five episodes. 1998 Jones had her first film role in Patch Adams. From 2001, she appeared in five episodes of recurrent on the sitcom Lizzie McGuire as Coach Kelly.
Jones was in a variety of television series like What's Up, Dad?, My Name Is Earl, Desperate Housewives or iCarly to see what contributed significantly to its reputation. She had recurring appearances in the award-winning series Nip / Tuck and played in the last two episodes, and the final TV movie about the series Prison Break. She was also for five episodes in the hospital drama Hawthorne to see 2010.
After her roles in Nip / Tuck and the rotated as pilot TV movie Pretty / Handsome, both produced by Glee creator Ryan Murphy, Jones, in 2010 the role of Shannon Beiste on Glee. Producer Brad Falchuk they met by chance while shopping and offered her a role on Glee, according to their promise, the figure for it was created, the Jones plays since the beginning of the second season. For this role, Jones received a 2011 Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series ( Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series).