Zoe-perry

Perry was born to actor Laurie Metcalf, and Jeff Perry. Her first roles on television included two episodes on the show as Jackie Harris (as seen in flashback) on The ABC sitcom Roseanne which was played by her mom. The parents of her did not want her to take on acting roles until she was an adult, fearing the effects of stress. Perry was shy in high-school and didn't act. She began acting in the year 2000 at Northwestern University to gain friends as she moved to the university from Boston University. Perry made her debut in New York after graduation, performing in minor role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. However, the feeling of homelessness made Perry come back to California to work as an actress in the theater. In 2013, she appeared in The Other Place on Broadway alongside her mother. In 2015, she was a part of her father as well as Kevin McKidd in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning film Anna Christie at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles. Perry starred in the drama's nine episodes from 2016 on ABC's drama The Family. In 2017, Perry had a minor role on ABC's thriller about politics Scandal in which her father was the main character. In the same year, the actress was selected to play a young model of Mary Cooper (Sheldon Cooper's mother) on Young Sheldon, a spin-off of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory again portraying a younger character of her mom's character. The character was chosen through an audition, even having a strong relationship with the show.