| Missi grew up in Houston and Katy, Texas until age 12. As a youngster, Missi had lots of friends, and loved to laugh and play games. There are 5 Pyle siblings, Julie, Debbie, Sam, Paul, and Missi (the baby), plus now she has a half brother and half sister, Gordon age 13, and Meredith, age 15. When she was 12, Missi moved to Germantown,(right outside of Memphis) Tennessee to live with her mother and stepfather. There she attended Germantown High School, one of the top 3 performing arts high schools in the country. Missi knew by about age 12 or 13 that she wanted to be an actress, so she started auditioning for roles in all her high school productions. Most don't know that Missi is also a talented singer, and started to develop her voice around the age of about 12. Her director at Germantown saw her potential, so he cast her in several productions. Some of the roles she has played are Nanette in "No No Nanette", The Witch in Soundheim's "Into the Woods", and the female lead in "Anything Goes". She also had parts in the "Mystery of Edwin Drood" and several other non-musical plays while at Germantown High.
She got accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem NC by audition in 1991. She graduated 4 years later with a degree in acting. While there, she was the lead in several plays. Her parts included Cressida in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida", among others. While in college, she spent a summer doing the Galveston Outdoor Musical, "Ruthless", playing the parts of teacher, and modern thespian in Galveston, Texas. She spent another summer at the Oxford School of Drama in England, and honed her acting skills there. Another summer, she was Becky in a production of "Big River" during the summer festival in Lincoln.
After graduation, she was picked up by the Paradigm Agency in New York, and did many productions and voice overs in New York City. While performing in Chicago about 5 years ago as John Malcovitch's wife in the Steppenwolf Theater Production of "The Libertine", she met her now husband, Antonio Sacre. Tony is an English/Spanish bilingual storyteller whose family came from Cuba and Ireland. He uses his rich heritage to portray his original and funny stories about growing up in his family, as well as other issues that face teens today. Recently, Tony has performed several one man shows, including his original, "Eleven Dollar Profit", which was a winner at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2000. Tony travels all over the world to share his unique stories, and is invited as a keynote speaker at many corporate events. Antonio also has a passion and a mission to help disadvantaged teens learn to value and appreciate their talents and differences.
Today, Missi and Antonio live near Los Angeles, Ca. with their 3-legged dog, Saskia, and cat, Chester. She starred in Kelsey Grammer's "Neurotic Tendencies" pilot, but unfortunately it didn't get picked up by the networks. So now she is currently working on a part for the Wayne Brady show, which is returning soon, as well as several movie parts.
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