Kate McKinnon

Kate McKinnon (born Kate McKinnon Berthold, 6 January 1984) is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022, where she became known for her character work and celebrity impressions. For her work on the series she was nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award in 2016 and 2017.

McKinnon was born and raised on Long Island in the town of Sea Cliff, New York. She graduated from North Shore High School in 2002 and from Columbia University in 2006 with a degree in theatre, where she co-founded the musical improv comedy group Tea Party. In 2007 she joined the original cast of Logo TV's The Big Gay Sketch Show, where she remained for all three seasons, and from 2008 she performed live sketch comedy regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.

She joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player on 7 April 2012 and was promoted to repertory status in 2013. McKinnon has voiced lead roles in the PBS Kids animated series Nature Cat and the Netflix series The Magic School Bus Rides Again, and portrayed Carole Baskin in the Peacock miniseries Joe vs. Carole (2022). Her film appearances include Ghostbusters (2016), Rough Night (2017), The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018), Bombshell (2019) and Barbie (2023), in which she played Weird Barbie.