Paget Brewster took an auspicious if roundabout path to an acting career, sorting out fame first in New York, where she was the singer for an underground rock band, later moving to San Francisco where she became a local television personality, and ending up in Los Angeles, where she acted in a string of failed pilots, landed a recurring role on NBC's hit sitcom "Friends" and made her starring regular debut on the 1999 CBS series "Love & Money". Dark-haired and quick witted, with a winning smile and a mischievous allure, Brewster broke through as a talk show host on the aptly named late-night
Moved to New York City at age 18, attending Parsons School of Design and singing in rock bands including Sleeping Pills (date approximate)
Headed west to San Francisco with Sleeping Pills; the band soon broke up and Brewster decided to pursue acting
Worked on the San Francisco-based public access TV show "Strange America", writing and performing in comedy sketches
1995
Hosted "The Paget Show", her own local late-night talk show in San Francisco, eyed for syndication and nationwide cable broadcast during the talk show boom
