Courtney Henggeler

Born in Phillipsburg New Jersey, Henggeler grew up in Pennsylvania in the Poconos until she was 14 when she moved to her parents hometown of Seaford, New York on the South Shore of Long Island.[4] After graduating from Seaford High School in 1997,[5] Henggeler enrolled at SUNY Fredonia but soon dropped out and moved to Los Angeles two years later, where she received her first acting lessons. She credits her childhood best friend Patti for making her audition for a high school production of Carousel when she was in 9th grade. She pretended to eat an apple while singing about clams for the role.[6]

Henggeler started off her acting career with a main role in the horror B-movie The Bog Creatures in 2003. Two years later, she made a guest appearance in the medical drama House.[7] In 2008, and again in 2018, Henggeler took on the guest role of Missy Cooper, the twin sister of one of the show's main characters Sheldon Cooper, in the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory.[7] After other guest roles in various movies and TV shows over the years and a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Mom, Henggeler finally made her breakthrough in 2018 when she landed a starring role on Cobra Kai as Amanda LaRusso, the wife of the original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso. In 2019 she was featured in Hulu's Episodic Holiday Horror series "In the Dark" playing an overprivileged mother who invites Thanksgiving reenactors into her home to remind her family of the reasons to be thankful (and to show off to their neighbors).

Henggeler married Ross Kohn in October 2015. They have two children.[8][9][10] She is of Swiss descent.[11]

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