Most actresses starring in a sitcom can't wait to tell you all about their favourite subject: themselves.

Not Natalie Brown.

The vivacious star of Sophie seems as oblivious to her career as her character is at times on her CBC comedy, which is back for a second season on Wednesday nights.

"I'll be honest here, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm the least experienced person on this show,'" the Timmins native says.

"I'm just surrounded by people who are really, really funny. They make me look good, they really do."

Brown plays Sophie Parker, a harried single mom and overwhelmed talent agent whose fortunes take a turn for the worse after a psychic predicts she's in for a bad year.

The hard luck includes losing her job, boyfriend and best friend (who stole both the boyfriend and Sophie's talent agency clients).

Pregnant Sophie immediately goes into labour and delivers -- not the boyfriend's child as expected, but a baby who is black, the product of a one-night stand.

The series is shot in Montreal and is an English language adaptation of a popular French language series in Quebec.

It was one of a handful of Canadian shows picked up this year by a U.S. broadcaster (in this case, ABC Family, which will premiere it in the U.S. in 2009).

Brown, 35, won the title role after an international career as a model and emerging actress on a series of Canadian shows, including ReGenesis, Naked Josh and Mutant X.

She was best known, however, for her flirty features in a series of commercials, most notably for Bailey's Irish Cream.

"It was a natural progression," she says.

"I had been trying out for pilots, both here and in Los Angeles."

Brown insists she doesn't think she's very funny, although friends tell her: "You don't know that you're funny, but you're funny."

She says she's always getting mixed up in crazy situations, just like her character.

"All my stories begin with the phrase: 'You're never going to believe this but ...'"

This season, Brown says Sophie is going to start taking more control of her own life.

Free of the psychic's prediction, she's "going to do her best to be a better mom," Brown declares.

"She's more grounded, more in the driver's seat."