WHO IS SHE?:
In TBS's new comedy, My Boys (Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT), Spiro plays P.J. Franklin, a beer-swilling, poker-playing tomboy, a Chicago sportswriter whose tight-knit circle of guy friends constantly interferes with her love life.

WHAT HAS SHE DONE?:
Plenty of TV appearances, including Cold Case and CSI: New York. And, although she had only a few moments of screen time in Must Love Dogs, Rolling Stone raved that "not since the young Goldie Hawn has an actress put a funnier, feistier spin on dumb" than Spiro as John Cusack's ditzy girlfriend.

WHY DO WE CARE?:
Spiro gives the genuinely funny My Boys some serious sex appeal. We can see her giving Kate Hudson a run for her money as the hottest girl-next-door blonde on the block.

Playboy.com: Are you a sports fan?

Jordana Spiro: I wasn't, but I've become one. Because my character P.J. makes a sports analogy to everything that goes on in her life, I wanted to learn as much as I could about baseball. My executive producer has taken me under her wing, and I've adopted the teams that she likes, like the Tigers.

Playboy.com: On My Boys, P.J.'s obsession with sports makes her kind of romantically challenged. Do you think sports-loving girls are romantically challenged?

Spiro: I don't think it's because she's a sports-loving girl that makes her romantically challenged. If anything that's a great thing to share in a relationship. It's the fact that she has such a close-knit group of guy friends who she enjoys being around that makes her unavailable. She'd rather go home and play poker than go on a date or get gussied up.

Playboy.com: We see her drinking a lot of beer and eating cheeseburgers and playing poker all the time. Is P.J. going to weigh three bills at the end of the season?

Spiro: She's a jogger. My eating habits aren't too far from hers, but it does entail some running.

Playboy.com: Your roommate got a so-called "girl booty call" -- an emotional, rather than sexual booty call -- on one episode. Is that a real thing?

Spiro: That was the first time I'd ever heard of it. The content of it rang true, but calling it the GBC -- I had never heard that before.

Playboy.com: P.J. rags on a perfect, sexy dancer girl because she has "little wrists." Why?

Spiro: That was funny, because that did ring true. I have known guys who love girls because of their tiny little wrists, and it just makes me want to puke.

Playboy.com: You've lived in New York and Los Angeles. Which one is better for dating?

Spiro: Oh, gosh. I would say my initial thought would be that New York would be easier. You're just more in contact with people. In L.A., you can live in a bubble in your car. You're only meeting the people who you work with or who are in your social circle. In New York, there's more opportunity to just bump into people.

Playboy.com: In your dating life, is there a base that's fair game for a first date.

Spiro: No, you gotta go with the flow.

Playboy.com: What was your worst dating disaster?

Spiro: Hmm. I can't think of a terrible one. Oh, I remember one date where a guy told me all about his taste for hookers on the first date. I thought that was pretty charming. I was like, great, that's what you're opening with. Needless to say, there wasn't a second date.

Playboy.com: Does "hooking up" mean having sex, or just making out?

Spiro: It's making out. What about for you? If you said it, what would you mean?

Playboy.com: It could mean either way. It's kind of vague. In the movie Must Love Dogs, you got props for playing a ditzy blonde for all of about six seconds. Was it kind of insulting when people said, Wow, you are so good as a dumb blonde!

Spiro: Right, exactly. I'm like, I'm not dumb, I'm just happy.

Playboy.com: Have you ever had a dumb blonde moment?

Spiro: Hmm. God, I think I'm having one right now, trying to find a story.

Playboy.com: What's one way sports compares to dating?

Spiro: I like the one episode about the five-tool player. We're talking about how somebody you're dating can be absolutely perfect, but they just don't fit with you. And it's so hard to break up with that person, because they're so great. She makes a comparison to a five-tool player, that's just an amazing player, and yet they just don't fit with their team.

Playboy.com: So, before we go, give us one final baseball-related dating tip.

Spiro: I would say, if you have one bad date -- like when a baseball player has one bad game -- you gotta just brush it off and move on to the next one.