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Kathy Kinney is a Actor American born on 3 november 1954 at Stevens Point (USA)

Kathy Kinney

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Nationality USA
Birth 3 november 1954 (69 years) at Stevens Point (USA)

Kathy Kinney (born November 3, 1954) is an American actress and comedian. She gained considerable popularity in the late 1990s for playing Mimi Bobeck, the outrageously made-up, flamboyantly vulgar, and vindictive nemesis of Drew Carey on the sitcom The Drew Carey Show. She had been involved with television, feature films, and stage work for years.

Biography

Early life
Kinney was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the daughter of Irish Americans Marian and Harold Kinney, an automobile dealer. For two years after high school, Kathy Kinney worked for the California Conservation Corps between 1972 and 1974. After completing a six month Back Country season in Kings Canyon, she left the program with thousands of dollars in scholarships. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and in 1976 moved to New York City, where she found work as a secretary at WCBS-TV. Her boss enjoyed hunting, and sometimes she chatted with him about his hunting trips, occasionally quipping, "So, did you kill anything this week?" She used this experience to inspire herself for the role of Mimi. During this time at WCBS she also worked nights at New York comedy clubs to improve her improvisational comedy skills. This eventually led to a job teaching improv classes. One such class had in its attendance Bill Sherwood, a director. He later wrote a part for her in his 1986 film, Parting Glances.


Career
Armed with the success of Parting Glances, Kinney visited friends in Los Angeles, and decided to permanently move there to pursue a career in acting. In L.A., Kinney worked hard as a character actress, getting small roles in various TV series such as Seinfeld (Season 4, Episode 22, "The Handicap Spot)", Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (with Drew Carey, with whom she would work again in The Drew Carey Show), Grace Under Fire, Full House, The Larry Sanders Show, and My Name Is Earl. Her first memorable television role is generally considered her regular stint on Newhart as Ms. Goddard, the town librarian (1989–1990).

Kinney has avoided auditions for what she calls "the heavy-girl roles". Critics occasionally grumble that Mimi, her character on The Drew Carey Show, is a waddling fat joke, but her weight has never seemed to be the point of a fat joke. "One time I had to say to Drew, 'Aw, you're just fat,' as the ultimate put-down. I personally don't like it, but if fat jokes slip in because they're funny, I don't care." She is, however, less comfortable about being typecast because of her weight. "Once in a while I would lose some weight, just by accident, and someone would say to me, 'You're going to diet yourself out of a career,'" she says. "And I tell them, 'I'm losing weight, not my talent.' Why is it the first thing [some people] look at is the shape? It points up to me the prejudice that still exists." The Mimi Bobeck character was written only into the pilot of Drew Carey Show. The character interviewed for a cosmetics job at Winfred-Louder and when not hired, because of her garish makeup, raised a big fuss and threatened to sue. Positive public reaction prompted the Mimi storyline to continue, as the store hired her as a secretary to prevent her from suing.

Kinney has also appeared in the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, again working with Drew Carey.

In addition to her television roles, Kinney has also appeared in several movies, including Arachnophobia, Stanley & Iris, Scrooged, Three Fugitives, Lenny the Wonder Dog, and This Boy's Life. In 2006 she visited Iraq with former co-star Drew Carey and his Improv All-Star Team, a series of USO performance for American troops; film of her appearance appears in the documentary Patriot Act by comedian Jeffrey Ross.

In 2008, Kinney became the co-creator and star of MrsP.com, an entertainment website for children. Kinney portrays Mrs. P, an eccentric redhead who loves books and reads classic children's stories from her magical library. After nearly two years in development, the site launched in beta on November 10, 2008.

On March 24, 2009, Kinney appeared in character as Mimi in the beginning of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. A week later (April Fool's Day), Kinney reprised her role as Mimi during that day's The Price Is Right, hosted by Carey, appearing as a guest model. She repeated the role on April Fool's Day 2010, this time usurping the post of executive producer.

She guest starred on The Penguins of Madagascar as Rhonda the walrus, Marlene's disgusting roommate, in the 2009 episode "Roomies". Rhonda made a second appearance in the episode "The Hoboken Surprise" in 2011.

In March 2010, Kinney co-authored with Cindy Ratzlaff a book entitled Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve, published by Harlequin.

Kinney has also been doing guest spots on The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Beginning in March 2011, Kinney has appeared in Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.

Usually with

Bill Sherwood
Bill Sherwood
(1 films)
Francis Veber
Francis Veber
(1 films)
Drew Carey
Drew Carey
(2 films)
Don Jakoby
Don Jakoby
(1 films)
Dinah Lenney
Dinah Lenney
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kathy Kinney (13 films)

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Lenny The Wonder Dog, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Michael Winslow, Sammy Kahn, Joe Morton, Evan Àdams, Andy Richter, Craig Ferguson
Roles Lisa Lathers
Rating35% 1.796191.796191.796191.796191.79619
Afin de préserver une micro-puce des mains d'un scientifique méchant, un employé du laboratoire décide de l'injecter dans... Lenny ! Jusqu'alors tout à fait normal, le chien Lenny se trouve doté de super pouvoirs, notamment celui de parler ! Afin de sauver son maître, la micro-puce, et le monde, il entraîne Zach, un jeune garçon croisé au parc, dans ses aventures. Elles les mèneront jusqu'à affronter le terrible psychopathe, réfugié sur son île secrète dans un seul but : accomplir son terrible dessein, transformer tous les enfants du monde en robot...
This Boy's Life, 1h54
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Scoutisme, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about domestic violence
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Eliza Dushku, Jonah Blechman, Chris Cooper
Roles Marian
Rating72% 3.648433.648433.648433.648433.64843
Nomadic, flaky Caroline Wolff (Ellen Barkin) wants to settle down in one place, find a decent man, and provide a better home for her and her son, Tobias "Toby" Wolff (Leonardo DiCaprio). When she moves to Seattle, Washington, and meets the seemingly respectable Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro) (in real life Dwight Thompson worked as a mechanic for Seattle City Light at the time), she thinks she has accomplished her goals. Toby, however, comes to feel differently; Dwight's true personality is revealed after Toby spends a few months separated from his mother with Dwight and his children. The boy's stepfather-to-be seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but his method includes emotionally, verbally and physically abusing the boy.
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones (1993)
, 1h54
Directed by Mike Figgis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Mike Figgis, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo
Roles Homeless Lady
Rating57% 2.8994452.8994452.8994452.8994452.899445
Mr. Jones (Gere) is a man suffering from bipolar disorder, a disease that affords him periods of intense emotional pleasure and expansiveness but which also results in periods of suicidal depression. In one of his manic periods he jumps up onto the stage during a concert performance of Beethoven's ninth and starts conducting, resulting in his arrest. Libbie Bowen (Olin), a doctor at a psychiatric hospital, takes an interest in his condition and falls for him, has sex with him, and has to resign from her position.
Cruel Doubt, 3h7
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Actors Blythe Danner, Matt McGrath, Edward Asnere, Denis Arndt, Adam Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow
Roles Skeptical Neighbor
Rating54% 2.7378752.7378752.7378752.7378752.737875
In their bedroom asleep one night, Bonnie and Leith Von Stein are violently attacked and stabbed by home intruders. Bonnie barely survives, but her husband does not.
The Linguini Incident, 1h38
Directed by Richard Shepard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Andre Gregory, Eszter Bálint, Buck Henry, Viveca Lindfors
Roles Denise
Rating62% 3.100363.100363.100363.100363.10036
Lucy (Arquette) is a frustrated magician, specifically an escape artist, who is obsessed with becoming a modern female version of Harry Houdini. She collects Houdini artifacts and waits for her big break while working as a waitress at a trendy Manhattan restaurant. With British bartender, Monte (Bowie), and her roommate Vivian, she arranges a heist of the restaurant. Monte is also determined to get Lucy to marry him, under the pretense that he needs his green card.
Arachnophobia, 1h43
Directed by Frank Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Comedy horror films
Actors Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Brian McNamara, Mark L. Taylor
Roles Blaire Kendall
Rating64% 3.2489153.2489153.2489153.2489153.248915
Entomologist Dr. James Atherton (Julian Sands) searches the Amazon rainforest with the hope of discovering new species of insects and arachnids. Descending into an enormous sinkhole, his team sets up collectors on the ground below a large tree, then blow smoke up into the canopy of the tree. A large number of bugs fall into the collector, including a very aggressive new species of spider. The spider is captured and chloroformed for research; and is later revealed to be lacking sex organs, thus making it a drone, or soldier, highly unusual in an arachnid species. A nature photographer, Jerry Manley (Mark L. Taylor), who has been suffering a fever while traveling with the team, unknowingly has a fertile (non-drone) male spider of the same species jump into his backpack, that night sneaking into his sleeping bag and biting him. Manley has a massive seizure from the venom and dies. The remainder of the scientists takes his body back to the United States, blaming Manley's death on the preexisting fever. The spider crawls into the box and is sealed in with the corpse.
Stanley & Iris, 1h44
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Jamey Sheridan, Harley Cross
Roles Bernice
Rating63% 3.15043.15043.15043.15043.1504
Iris King works in a baking factory in Connecticut. Still getting over the recent death of her husband, she lives from paycheck to paycheck as she raises her two children, Kelly and Richard. Also staying with her are her unemployed sister Sharon and Sharon's abusive husband Joe. Iris lives in a high crime area. With money already tight for the family, Kelly discovers she is pregnant which makes matters worse.
Three Fugitives, 1h36
Directed by Francis Veber
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Nick Nolte, Martin Short, James Earl Jones, Alan Ruck, Sy Richardson, Bruce McGill
Roles Receptionist
Rating62% 3.104563.104563.104563.104563.10456
Lucas (Nolte) has been in prison for armed robbery. On the day he is released, he gets taken hostage by Ned Perry (Short), an incompetent, novice criminal who robs a bank (to get money for treatment for his ill daughter, Meg) at the moment Lucas just happens to be there.
Scrooged
Scrooged (1988)
, 1h41
Directed by Richard Donner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films, Films about television, Time travel films, Ghost films
Actors Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Robert Mitchum, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait
Roles IBC Nurse
Rating68% 3.449333.449333.449333.449333.44933
Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a successful but cynical television programming executive for the IBC network headquartered in New York City. He has demanded the network put on a extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve to seize the ratings opportunity, forcing the network's staff including his direct assistant Grace Cooley (Alfre Woodard) to work on the holiday. When some of his decisions are questioned, he fires timid yes-man Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait) on the spot. Frank's boss Preston Rhinelander (Robert Mitchum) takes the liberty of hiring an assistant for Frank, Brice Cummings (John Glover), who is transparently after Frank's job. Hours before the show is set to start, Frank is alone in his office when he is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward (John Forsythe), who warns him of the errors of his ways and that three ghosts will visit him over the course of the night. Before he leaves, Lew causes Frank's phone to call Claire Phillips (Karen Allen), Frank's true love who he had foregone when he became a television executive. Claire comes to visit Frank, but finds him too busy with preparations for the show, though leaves him the address of the homeless shelter that she helps out at.
Parting Glances, 1h30
Directed by Bill Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Steve Buscemi, Kathy Kinney, Patrick Tull, Bob Koherr, Cam Brainard, Victor Rivers
Roles Joan
Rating71% 3.595693.595693.595693.595693.59569
L'histoire est celle d'un couple homosexuel, Robert et Michael, entre vingt et trente ans, vivant à New York. Robert (John Bolger) est sur le point de partir travailler en Afrique alors que son compagnon Michael (Richard Ganoung) reste en Amérique. L'ex de Michael, Nick (Steve Buscemi), dont Michael s'occupe et dont il est toujours amoureux, est atteint du SIDA.