Jessica Hecht

Jessica Hecht (born June 28, 1965) is an American actress and singer who played Gretchen Schwartz on Breaking Bad, Susan Bunch on Friends, and Carol on The Boys. She has also made numerous Broadway appearances.

Hecht was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the daughter of Lenore, a psychotherapist, and Richard Hecht, a physicist.[citation needed] When she was three, she moved with her parents and sister to Bloomfield, Connecticut. After her parents divorced, her mother married psychiatrist Howard Iger, and they raised Jessica and her sister Elizabeth. Hecht attended Connecticut College for a year and a half before graduating from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.[2][3]

Hecht was raised in a culturally Jewish family, with a secular socialist father who nonetheless expressed interest in religion and had had a Bar Mitzvah.[4][5] She has stated that she is Reconstructionist Jewish and “fairly spiritual”.