While she might be best known as the perpetually-perky Flo from the Progressive insurance commercials, Stephanie Courtney is actually a multifaceted actress with a background in comedy and drama who ...

Flo from Progressive insurance has joined the big leagues of advertising icons. A Google search for “Flo from Progressive” yields an astonishing 14.4 million hits, including her own Wikipedia page.

I’ve never mentioned Flo, the Progressive Girl–the upbeat cashier with the retro hairdo, played by comic Stephanie Courtney in those insurance commercials–mainly because she’s always lurked deep in my ...