Kate McKinnon
Highest Rated: 88% Barbie (2023)
Lowest Rated: 32% Irreplaceable You (2018)
Birthday: Jan 6, 1984
Birthplace: Sea Cliff, New York, USA
Kate McKinnon made history of a sort when she joined "Saturday Night Live" (NBC 1975- ) as a featured player in 2012, as the first "out" lesbian to join the cast. (After 1985-86 cast member Danitra Vance's death in 1994, it was revealed that she was also a lesbian.) Kate McKinnon Berthold was born in New York's Nassau County and raised on Long Island. After graduating from Columbia University, McKinnon started performing improv comedy in and around New York, eventually appearing regularly at the prominent Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, performing one-woman shows with titles like "Kate McKinnon On Ice." In 2007, she joined the cast of "The Big Gay Sketch Show" (LOGO 2007-2010), spending three seasons on the show honing her original characters and impressions. McKinnon joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in the spring of 2012, replacing featured cast member Paul Brittain, who had left the show suddenly earlier in the season. Seen by many as a designated replacement for the departing Kristen Wiig, McKinnon was an immediate success on the show. Her specialty quickly became tightly wound characters with an antic edge, such as Russian immigrant Olya Povlatsky; a 2015 sketch with host Ryan Gosling in which she described her unsavory experiences following an alien abduction became one of the show's most immediate viral hits. Impressions ranging from Ellen DeGeneres to Shakira to a frighteningly accurate Justin Bieber and a superlative Hillary Clinton (whom she played opposite the real thing in a memorable sketch early in the 2016 election season) were part of her arsenal as well. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her work on the show in 2014 and 2015. McKinnon branched into film work with supporting roles in the romantic comedy "Life Partners" (2014) and the sports comedy "Intramural" (aka "Balls Out") (2014). Higher profile roles in SNL-affiliated features like "Staten Island Summer" (2015), written by Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost, and "Sisters" (2015), starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, followed. Soon, McKinnon graduated to major films such as Pixar's "Finding Dory" (2016) and Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters" (2016), in which she starred alongside Melissa McCarthy and fellow SNL vets Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones.
Photos
Kate McKinnon
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Minecraft Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Blink of an Eye | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
88% |
|
Barbie | Barbie (Character) | $636.2M | 2023 |
72% |
|
DC League of Super-Pets | Lulu (Voice) | $93.7M | 2022 |
68% |
|
Bombshell | Jess Carr (Character) | $31.7M | 2019 |
63% |
|
Yesterday | Debra (Character) | $73.2M | 2019 |
77% |
|
Family | Jill (Character) | $126.5K | 2018 |
49% |
|
The Spy Who Dumped Me | Morgan (Character) | $33.5M | 2018 |
32% |
|
Irreplaceable You | Glass Half Full Kate (Character) | - | 2018 |
71% |
|
Ferdinand | Lupe (Voice) | $84.2M | 2017 |
45% |
|
Rough Night |
Kiwi/ |
$22.1M | 2017 |
52% |
|
Leap! |
Regine/ |
$21.8M | 2016 |
40% |
|
Office Christmas Party | Mary Winetoss (Character) | $54.1M | 2016 |
34% |
|
Masterminds | Jandice (Character) | $17.3M | 2016 |
74% |
|
Ghostbusters | Jillian Holtzmann (Character) | - | 2016 |
44% |
|
The Angry Birds Movie | Stella, Eva the Birthday Mom (Voice) | $107.5M | 2016 |
60% |
|
Sisters | Sam (Character) | - | 2015 |
33% |
|
Staten Island Summer | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
44% |
|
Ted 2 | Self | $81.3M | 2015 |
81% |
|
Balls Out | Vicky (Character) | - | 2014 |
70% |
|
Life Partners | Trace (Character) | $7.6K | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
|
Hannah Has a Ho-Phase | Nicky (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
|
My Best Day | Heather (Character) | - | 2012 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2014 2016-2019 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | 14% | The View | Guest | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2016-2019 2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nature Cat | Squeeks (Voice) | 2015-2024 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live |
Unknown (Character), Host |
2012-2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2013-2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 |
33% | 86% | Joe vs Carole |
Carole Baskin (Character), Executive Producer |
2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magic School Bus Rides Again | Ms. Fiona Frizzle (Voice) | 2017-2018 2021 |
80% | 65% | Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy |
karen/ |
2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Hettie (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 68% | The Awesomes |
Lola Gold (Guest Voice), Unknown (Voice) |
2014-2015 |
96% | 84% | Difficult People | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
81% | 67% | The Spoils of Babylon | Unknown (Character) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday | Unknown (Character) | 2009 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Gay Sketch Show | Unknown (Character) | 2003 2007-2008 2010 |