Kate Flannery

Kate Flannery
Flannery at the June 2009 premiere for The Proposal
Born Katherine Patricia Flannery
(1964-06-10) June 10, 1964
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Residence Los Angeles, California
Alma mater Shenandoah University
University of the Arts
Occupation Actress
Years active 1989–present
Notable work Meredith Palmer in The Office
Home town Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spouse(s) Chris Haston
Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nomination

Katherine Patricia "Kate" Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress known for playing the role of Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office.

Personal life

Flannery was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Saints Colman- John Neumann School and Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She studied for two years at Shenandoah University and graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.[1]

Flannery has been dating NBC stills photographer Chris Haston since 2006. They met on the set of The Office. She is one of seven children in an Irish-American family.[2][3] She is three minutes younger than her twin sister who is a social worker.[4]

Career

Improvisation

A former member of The Second City's National Touring Company, Flannery is an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theater, where she appeared in over 15 shows including The Miss Vagina Pageant and The Real Live Brady Bunch.

The Lampshades, her cult comedy lounge act with veteran improviser Scot Robinson, has been running in Hollywood and in comedy festivals all over the country since 2001 and was seen at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. The Lampshades was New York magazine's "LA Pick" for 2006,[5] and was declared "Best Saturday Comedy Show of the Year" by LA Weekly.

Stage work

Flannery has been touring with Jane Lynch as her sidekick on stage since 2013 in her show See Jane Sing with Tim Davis and the Tony Guerrero Quintet, playing the Kennedy Center, Joe's Pub, the Borgata and 30 cities. Flannery was in the long running New York hit, Nora Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She also played Neely O'Hara in Off Broadway hit Valley of the Dolls at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City and Los Angeles. Also in Los Angeles, she played the teen prostitute and Blair's sister in The Phacts of Life at the Renberg Theatre and in the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner production of Three Feet Under at The Evidence Room.

She is the former musical director of the Los Angeles Drama Club, teaching Shakespeare to children and young adults.

Music

Jane Lynch's Christmas Album A Swingin' Little Christmas features Kate Flannery, and reached #8 on the Billboard top 100 charts.

Flannery was a member of the band Mono Puff, using the stage name "Lady Puff". She toured with the band and sang on their second album, It's Fun to Steal.

Television

Flannery appeared as the alcoholic, divorced, single mother Meredith Palmer on the television comedy The Office. Before The Office, she made appearances on The Bernie Mac Show, Boomtown, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In 2008, Flannery was a talent scout on Last Comic Standing with her Office costar Brian Baumgartner, and she appeared with the cast of The Office on Celebrity Family Feud. In 2010 she played Harper's mom on the Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place as Elaine Finkle.

Flannery also appeared as a judge in a 2009 episode of Iron Chef America.[6]

She has also appeared on The Jay Leno Show portraying Wendy in a skit at the time of the burger chain's 40th anniversary.[7]

She was a contestant on for 19 episodes of Celebrity Name Game, two episodes of Hollywood Game Night with Jane Lynch, Don't Forget the Lyrics. Flannery hosted Standup in Stilettos for two seasons on the TV Guide network.

In 2016, she recurred on ABC's American Housewife as Crossing Guard Sandy, played a janitor in an episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, appeared on FOX's New Girl and MTV's Mary+Jane, and in 2017 recurred on Cartoon Network's Steven Universe.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1999 Can't Stop Dancing Tonia
1999 Trick Ridiculous Writer
2000 Amy Stiller's Breast Reporter Short film
2002 Life Without Dick Crampy Legs Partygoer
2003 Carolina Café Waitress
2005 The Heir Apparent Heidi Short film
2005 I'm Not Gay Secretary Short film
2006 Danny Roane: First Time Director Marla
2007 Jesus People Sharon Nyenhuis Short film
2007 Wild Girls Gone Reading Circle #4
2009 Coco Lipshitz: Behind the Laughter Reporter Short film
2009 You Airline Counter Girl
2010 Finger Babies Teacher Video short
2012 Love or Whatever Rosemary
2014 Home Rosemary
2014 Break Point Commonwealth Rep
2014 Helicopter Mom Norma
2014 Cooties Charman
2015 Dial a Prayer Cora's coworker
2016 4th Man Out Karen
2017 How to Get Girls Linda Fox Post-production
2017 Stuck Ms. Jenkins Post-production
2017 Fishbowl California Susan Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2001 Spyder Games Bunny Recurring role (5 episodes)
2002 Curb Your Enthusiasm Cop #2 Episode: "The Corpse-Sniffing Dog"
2002 Saturday Night Live Lucy (voice) Episode: "Al Gore/Phish"
2003 Boomtown Tracey Episode: "Inadmissable"
2004 Crossballs: The Debate Show Episode: "Plastic Surgury: Nip-pocalypse?"
2004 The Bernie Mac Show Christopher's Mom Episode: "Stiff Upper Lip"
2005–2013 The Office Meredith Palmer Main role (187 episodes)
2006 The Office: The Accountants Meredith Palmer Episode: "Meredith"
2008 The Office: The Outburst Meredith Palmer Episode: "The Explanation"
2009 Rise and Fall of Tuck Johnson Nikki Strokums TV series
2009 The Office: Blackmail Meredith Palmer TV series
2009 The Jay Leno Show Wendy / Mrs. Claus Episodes: "1.10", "1.69"
2010 Wizards of Waverly Place Elaine Finkle Episode: "Wizards vs. Finkles"
2010 The Office: The 3rd Floor Meredith Palmer Episodes: "The Final Product", "Moving On"
2011 The Soup Brenna Episode: "The Soup Awards"
2011 The Christmas Pageant Beverly Simmons TV film
2011 The Life & Times of Tim Irene / Jean Gillis (voice) 2 episodes
2013 Jessie Corporal Cookie Episode: "GI Jessie"
2015–2017 Steven Universe Barb Miller (voice) 4 episodes
2015 Another Period Anne Sullivan Episode: "Pilot"
2016 Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Mean" Marge Bronigan Episode: "Adrian Pimento"
2016 New Girl Mary Ellen Episode: "Hubbedy Bubby"
2016 Disengaged Chef Super Deluxe web series. Episode "Food and Wine"
2016 American Housewife Crossing Guard Sandy 2 episodes
2017–present OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Carol Main role
2017 Kevin (Probably) Saves the World Ann Russo Episode: "How to Be Good"
2018 Liza on Demand Kareoke Woman Episode: "MoJoe"

References

  1. ↑ "One on One with Kate Flannery".
  2. ↑ http://www.fancast.com/people/Kate-Flannery/107005/biography/about%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  3. ↑ hmoogle (24 May 2008). "Kate Flannery" – via YouTube.
  4. ↑ Tuesday 19 June 2012 episode of The Wendy Williams Show
  5. ↑ Abramovitch, Seth (2006). "Los Angeles Spring 2006 Travel Guide: Comedy". New York Magazine. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Battle: Skirt Steak, Episode IA0709". Iron Chef America. Season 7. Episode 15. 2009-05-31.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2009-11-20.
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