Desi Lydic

Lani Desmonet “Desi” Lydic (born June 30, 1981) is an American actress who currently stars as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward.. She got her start in the 2001 parody film Not Another Teen Movie. She has also starred in the Spike mini-series Invasion Iowa alongside William Shatner, and the parody series The Real Wedding Crashers. She appeared as Shea Seger in the 2011 film We Bought a Zoo alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, and in the 2013 film The Babymakers with Olivia Munn. Lydic also made headlines for appearing as one half of a lesbian couple on an episode of the Disney Channel series Good Luck Charlie in 2014.