This pretty, sweet-faced actress became a familiar fixture on television with her role as Matt LeBlanc’s married next-door neighbor Alex Garrett on the “Friends” spin-off “Joey.’ Born in DeForest, Wisconsin in 1975, Anders earned a bachelor's in fine arts from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and a master's from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. After grad school, Anders moved to New York and made her debut on Broadway in "Proof" as an understudy, and appeared in “The Graduate" playing Elaine Robinson. Anders' first TV-land stop was daytime dramas, with appearances