Kathy Kinney

Kathy Kinney (b. November 3, 1954 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actress. Image File history File links Kinney. ... Image File history File links Kinney. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stevens Point is a city located in Portage County in central Wisconsin. ...

Kathy is a versatile character actress who gained considerable popularity in the late '90s 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. The Drew Carey Show was an American sitcom starring Drew Carey, set in Cleveland, Ohio. ...

In 1976, at the age of 23, Kathy Kinney moved from the small college town of Stevens Point, Wisconsin to New York City, where she found work as a secretary at WCBS-TV. Her boss enjoyed hunting, and sometimes she would chat with him in his office about his hunting trips. She might quip "So, did you kill anything this week?" This is where Kathy says her future character Mimi Bobeck was "born." During this time period at WCBS she was also working nights at various New York comedy clubs improving her improvisational comedy skills. This eventually led to a job teaching improv classes. One such class had in its attendance a director by the name of Bill Sherwood. Bill Sherwood wrote a part for her in his 1986 film, "Parting Glances." Armoured with the success of this film, Kathy went to visit friends in Los Angeles, where she decided to permanently move and pursue a career in acting. In L.A. Kathy worked hard as a character actress, getting small roles in various TV series such as Seinfeld, Grace Under Fire, Full House, and The Larry Sanders Show. Her first memorable television role is generally considered her regular stint on Newhart as Ms. Goddard, the town librarian (1989-1990). Stevens Point is a city located in Portage County in central Wisconsin. ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is the largest financial center in the world. ... WCBS-TV, CBS2 located in New York City, is the flagship TV station of the CBS television network. ... Improvisational comedy (also called improv or impro) is comedy that is performed with a little to no predetermination of subject matter and structure. ... Bill Sherwood was born June 14, 1952 in Washington, D.C.. He died February 10, 1990 in New York, NY from AIDS complications. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ... Seinfeld is a television sitcom which ran from July 5, 1989 to May 14, 1998 and is considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture... Grace Under Fire was a television series which ran on ABC from 1993 to 1998. ... Full House was a television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from 1987 until 1995. ... The Larry Sanders Show is the name of a satirical situation comedy television series that originally screened from 1992 to 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the USA. It starred former standup comedian Garry Shandling as the shows vain, self-obsessed, neurotic host, Larry Sanders. ... Newhart is the name of a television situation comedy that aired on the CBS network from 1982 to 1990. ...

Kathy 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." Typecasting is the process by which an actor is strongly identified with a role or genre. ...

In addition to her television roles, Kathy has also appeared in several movies, including Arachnophobia, Stanley & Iris, Three Fugitives, and This Boy's Life. Arachnophobia is the fear (or phobia) of spiders. ... This Boys Life is a memoir by Tobias Wolff. ...

External links

• Kathy Kinney at the Internet Movie Database