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'''Annie Edison''' (played by [[Alison Brie]]), born December 19, 1990, is a diligent, strait-laced, [[Type A and Type B personality theory|Type-A]], [[Judaism|Jewish]] student who is in her fifth year at Greendale Community College after graduating and then reapplying to major in her dream, [[forensic science]].<ref name="annie bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/campus-connect/annie-edison.shtml |title=Greendale Community College – Annie Edison |publisher=NBC |access-date=February 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214074239/http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/campus-connect/annie-edison.shtml |archive-date=February 14, 2010 }}</ref> During high school, Annie was a timid, nerdy student who desperately wanted to succeed, subsequently developing an addiction to [[Adderall]]. She was an acquaintance of Troy Barnes, a popular athlete, and harbored a crush on him. They both attended a party where high school honors were being awarded. When Troy, instead of Annie, received the award for "Most Likely to Succeed", and when he failed to recognize Annie when she criticized him, she suffered a breakdown and ran through a (closed) sliding glass door. Her stress finally induced a full nervous breakdown that culminated in her jumping through a [[Plate glass|plate-glass]] window yelling, "Everyone's a robot!" Her injuries necessitated six separate [[Reconstructive surgery|reconstructive surgeries]]. Against the wishes of her mother, she chose to confront the addiction and go to rehab. This led to an estrangement from her family, including any financial support, and she currently survives on her savings from her childhood. In season 2, the group learns she is living in a horrible neighborhood (in an apartment situated over ''Dildopolis'', an all-night [[sex shop]]), and Troy and Abed invite her to move into their new place in season 3.

While attending rehab, she had an outing to a [[frozen yogurt]] restaurant, during which she saw an advertisement for Greendale and decided to participate in the community college. Between her graduation from rehab and her enrollment in Greendale, she shed her geek appearance and began to straighten her hair and dress more fashionably.

Though the youngest of the group, Annie is also by far the most studious and serious. She is, for example, the only student of Greendale to have ever made use of the extra credit program that the college offers by hosting a [[Day of the Dead|Dia de los Muertos]] (English: Day of the Dead) party. During an episode where she is forced to leave the group due to her sabotaging their Spanish finals, the group learns that she is the only person who knows how to study. She also takes audio notes of every class and transcribes them, prompting Pierce to exclaim and misuse the term "spoiler alert". She is very intensely focused on grades, school activities, and group cohesion. A noticeably cheerful girl, she is enthusiastic about helping out the school, writing for the school paper and participating on the debate team, and organizing school events. Annie's youthful innocence often, but not always, means that she is less involved with the group's less morally acceptable practices, though she genuinely enjoys spending time with them. She attempts to motivate and manipulate the other study group members with guilt, using her "Disney face". She takes the cohesion of the study group more seriously than the other members and, in trying to get the group to retake Spanish 102 together, gets Señor Chang fired for his fake degree in "[[English as a Second Language (Community)|English as a Second Language]]".

Annie has been shown to occasionally choose her interests over keeping the group intact, first by dating Britta's estranged ex-boyfriend Vaughn and (temporarily) choosing to leave Greendale and the group to follow Vaughn to another college, and later by deciding to exclude Jeff from the group and her friendship during his season 3 premiere nervous breakdown when he attacked the table with an ax after accidentally inhaling monkey-gas. On one occasion, her somewhat-illicit cradle sexuality is used to lure Jeff into Glee Club. Nonetheless, these cases rarely result in long-lasting issues. Annie used to pine after Troy, on whom she had a crush since his high school football quarterback days, but that stops when she begins dating Vaughn. At the end of the first season, it appears as if Annie has developed a romantic dynamic with Jeff, whom she kissed both to win a debate competition and at the end of the season. While she is still interested in Jeff at the beginning of season 2, he is more standoffish, and after the study group learns he'd had sex with Britta during the paintball episode, Annie says she thinks of Jeff as "gross". Later in the episode "[[Asian Population Studies]]" Annie develops a crush on Dr. Rich Stephenson, a fellow Greendale student that Jeff had clashed with. Jeff seems jealous but refuses to admit it. However, Rich declines Annie's advances due to their age difference. There have been indications that Annie may still harbor feelings for Jeff, and it has been suggested that he may feel similarly. However, it is revealed in "[[Virtual Systems Analysis]]" that Annie is coming to terms with how exactly she feels about Jeff when Abed manipulates her because of her apparent feelings for him. Annie learns from the experience that the way she responds to her feelings for Jeff is shallow and immaterial and that any kind of love or feelings like this isn't fair to herself or the other person. She also gains a better understanding of Abed as well.