Melissa McCarthy has been in a film.
Life As We Know It is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti , starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel . Melissa McCarthy . She began appearing in television and films in the late 1990s , and first gained nationwide recognition for her role as Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls ( 2000 -- 2007 ) . In 2014 , McCarthy starred in the comedy Tammy and the comedy-drama film St. Vincent .