Mary Lou's
show business career started at age six when she entertained as a member of Singing Solo (a children's singing group located in
La Mesa,
CA) at a local street fair with a rendition of
The Good Ship Lollipop. After this performance, she chose acting as her career. Over the next few years, Lou went on to sing at over two dozen venues throughout
Southern California,
Texas and
Tennessee, winning multiple local,
state, regional, national and
world championship titles. Mary Lou has guest starred on
Phil of the Future, as a math-nerd named Alex, as well as
Glee,
3 lbs and
What Should You Do?. She also appeared in
made for TV movies including
Future Girls: Adventures in Marine Biology and ''Bad Mother's Handbook''. She continues to audition daily for
feature films,
television and
voiceover. In 2004, Mary Lou landed her most prominent role till that point, on
Unfabulous as a nerd named Mary Ferry.
Sue Rose, executive producer of the show claims that Mary Ferry was only originally intended for one episode but was 'so funny and likable' she appears in thirty altogether. In 2008, the cast of
Unfabulous were nominated for a
Young Artist Award for Best Young Ensemble Performance in a TV Series. She is a featured player on
The Glass Cannon Network, a podcast network of tabletop role-playing games, where she plays Ragga Beardaughter on their show
Blood of the Wild. ==Filmography==