Kate McKinnon parents-American actress, comedian and writer, Kate McKinnon Berthold was born on January 6, 1984 in Sea Cliff, New York in the United States of America.
McKinnon used to play a variety of instruments as a kid. At age five, she began playing the piano. At age twelve, she began playing the cello. At age fifteen, she began teaching herself how to play the guitar.
She obtained a theatre degree from Columbia University in 2006 after graduating from North Shore High School in 2002. She also co-founded a musical improv comedy troupe called Tea Party there.
She appeared in three Varsity productions while a student at Columbia: V109 Dial D for Deadline, V110 Off-Broadway, and V111 The Sound of Muses.
Future performers Jenny Slate and Grace Parra, filmmakers Tze Chun and Greta Gerwig, and The Onion managing editor Peter Koechley were among her coworkers on set and in the crew.
Kate McKinnon career
McKinnon joined the original cast of The Big Gay Sketch Show on Logo TV in 2007, becoming a part of the cast for all three seasons.
She has been consistently presenting live sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City since 2008.
She has also worked as a voice actress, lending her talents to shows including Robotomy, The Venture Brothers, and Ugly Americans.
A Logo NewNowNext Award for Best Rising Comic was given to McKinnon in 2009. In 2010, she was put forward for an ECNY Emerging Comic Award.
She participated in a tribute to Lily Tomlin at the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors by making an appearance. She appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters remake alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Leslie Jones, who were also SNL cast members.
She participated in a tribute to Lily Tomlin at the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors by making an appearance. She appeared in the 2016 Ghostbusters remake alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Leslie Jones, who were also SNL cast members.
McKinnon has appeared as a voice actress in movies like Finding Dory, The Angry Birds Movie, Ferdinand, and DC League of Super-Pets in addition to television shows like The Simpsons (as Hettie in “Gal of Constant Sorrow”) and Family Guy (as Karen / Heavy Flo in season 14, episode 6 “Peter’s Sister” and other voices in other episodes).
From 2017 through 2020, McKinnon provided the voice of Fiona Frizzle in the children’s television series The Magic School Bus Rides Again.
Alongside Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan, two other SNL cast members, she has been Squeeks the Mouse’s voice on the PBS Kids series Nature Cat since 2015.
McKinnon made several appearances in Ford Focus advertisements in 2015. She and Kumail Nanjiani co-hosted the 31st Independent Spirit Awards in 2016. She had a supporting part in the 2019 film Yesterday.
She was filming the Peacock miniseries Joe vs. Carole, in which she plays as Carole Baskin, and missed the first seven episodes of the 47th season of Saturday Night Live as a result. The first day was March 3, 2022.
Who are Kate McKinnon’s parents?
Kate McKinnon was born to Laura Campbell and Michael Thomas Berthold. Her mother worked as a parent educator and her father worked as an architect.
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