Paget Brewster (born March 10, 1969 in Concord (Concord, Massachusetts), Massachusetts) is an American (United States) actress.

Brewster first came to prominent attention in her recurring role as Kathy, Joey (Joey Tribbiani)s girlfriend (and later Chandler (Chandler Bing)s) in the fourth season of Friends. Brewster also had a short-lived Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area) talk show. She appeared in Andy Richter Controls The Universe and as Beth Huffstodt in the Showtime (Showtime (television)) series Huff (Huff (TV series)), which aired from 2004-2006. She currently is known for playing Special Agent Emily Prentiss on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

In film, Brewster played Ms. Indestructible, the female lead in James Gunns (James Gunn (film maker)) low-budget superhero comedy The Specials (The Specials (film)) (2000), opposite Thomas Haden Church and Rob Lowe. She also played Amy Pierson, a calculus teacher afraid of the water, in the independent film The Big Bad Swim that premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2005, Brewster began voice work as a recurring character on the animated series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as Judy Sebben/Birdgirl.

On the March 30, 2006 episode of Late Night with Conan OBrien, Brewster revealed that she had recently received a handwritten note indicating Hugh Hefner would like her to pose for Playboy (Playboy (magazine)). She seriously considered the offer but eventually turned it down for career reasons, even though her parents gave her their blessing and she said that she admired Playboy more than magazines such as Maxim (Maxim (magazine)) and FHM. She has, however, photographed spreads of other models for SuicideGirls. Brewster was previously known as a retro pin-up model in the Los Angeles area, as well as a retro photographer.

Brewster has volunteered as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program (Young storytellers program).

She is best known for her role as Emily Prentiss on the CBS TV Show Criminal Minds. It was announced in June 2010 that her role would be reduced on Criminal Minds sixth season. . She is in a relationship with Steve Damstra, a business partner of her CM costar Matthew Gray Gubler. Damstra and Brewster live in Los Angeles, CA.