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Elizabeth Claire 'Ellie' Kemper (born May 2, 1980) is an American actress, comedian and writer best known for her role as Erin Hannon in NBC's The Office.

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Date de parution	24 octobre 2012
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Articles Ellie Kemper 21 Jump Street (film) Bridesmaids (2011 film) Get Him to the Greek Mystery Team The Office (U.S. TV series)

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Ellie Kemper

Photo from Princeton University in 2002 BornElizabeth Claire Kemper May 2, 1980 Kansas City, Missouri, US

Occupation

Years active

Actress, comedian

2003–present

Elizabeth Claire "Ellie" Kemper(born May 2, 1980) is an American actress, comedian and writer best known for her role as Erin Hannon in NBC'sThe Office.

Personal life [1] [2] Kemper was born on May 2, 1980, in Kansas City, Missouri, the second of four children born to Dorothy Ann [3] (nae Jannarone) and David Woods Kemper. She is the granddaughter of Mildred Lane Kemper, the namesake of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, for which the family donated $5 million. Ellie Kemper's father was chairman and chief executive officer for Commerce Bancshares, a bank holding company founded by the Kemper family (her paternal great-great-grandfather was banker William Thornton Kemper, Sr.). She is also the older sister of television writer Carrie Kemper. Kemper is of Italian (from her maternal [4] grandfather) and German descent. The family moved to St. Louis when Ellie was five years old. She attended the Conway School in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue and then high school at John Burroughs School, where she developed an interest in theater and improvisational comedy. One of her teachers was Jon Hamm, with whom she [2] appeared in a school play. In 2011, Kemper became engaged to her boyfriend Michael Koman, a former writer onLate Night with Conan O'Brienand currently the co-creator of the Adult Swim seriesEagleheart.

Career [2] Kemper graduated from John Burroughs in 1998 and attended Princeton University, where she continued her interest in improvisational comedy. Kemper participated in Quipfire!, a renowned improv comedy group, and the Princeton Triangle Club, a touring musical comedy theater troupe. She also played field hockey at Princeton in the [5] [6] 1999 season and claimed she sat on the bench "roughly 97 percent" of the time. Her field hockey team went to [2] the national championship in her freshman year, but she quit the team in later years to focus on theater. Kemper graduated from Princeton in 2002 with a degree in English, then studied English for a year at the University of [6] Oxford. She has appeared on comedy sketches onLate Night With Conan O'Brien,Important Things with Demetri [2] [7] [8] Martinan episode of E! Television's, and The Gastineau Girls, which has been described as her "breakout

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role". She has appeared on Fuse TV'sThe P.A.In October 2008, Kemper appeared onThe Colbert Reportin a PSA [9] [10] for Teen Voter Abstinence . She also appeared on 3 episodes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2007–2008. [11] [7] Kemper has written several sketch comedy shows many of them with her comedy partner Scott Eckert, a fellow [6] Princeton grad. [12] Kemper is a contributing writer for the national satirical newspaperThe Onionand forMcSweeney's, the literary [7] journal founded by Dave Eggers. Her essays forMcSweeney'sincluded "Listen, Kid, The Biggest Thing You've [13] Got Going For You Is Your Rack", "Following My Creative Writing Teacher's Advice To Write 'Like My Parents [14] [15] Are Dead'", and "Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids". She is also a contributor to [16] [17] The Huffington Postinclude "I'm Not Exactly Afraid of Really Intense Fashion".,. Pieces [7] Kemper has also appeared in several national commercials. One was a radio spot for Dunkin' Donuts. In a [18] [19] commercial for KMart , Kemper is featured as a camper with a live tarantula crawling over her face. “I'm the most comfortable when I'm playing a naturalistic character. I auditioned forSaturday Night Live, and when I was doing the biggest characters, I felt the least comfortable. I'm just more comfortable when it's some version of myself.” [20] Ellie Kemper [6] Upon moving to New York City, Kemper participated in thePeople’s Improv Theatreand the city troupe of Upright Citizens Brigade, an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy theater. She has appeared in several shows [7] for the Brigade, includingDeath and/or Despair,Listen Kid,Gang BangandThe Improvised Mystery. At the [7] UCB, she performed with the house improv teamsMailer Daemonandfwandthe PIT, she performs with the. At [21] house improv team Big Black Car. In August 2008, she auditioned for a spot on the NBC sketch comedy show [20] Saturday Night LiveIn July 2009, Kemper was named one of, but was not cast. Varietymagazine's "10 Comics [20] To Watch". Big Black Car teammate Kristen Schaal was also named. In 2007, she appeared inHow to Kick People, a performance combining stand-up comedy and literary performances. In March 2008, she wrote and performed in the one-woman show "Dumb Girls" [8] through the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She also performed in [20] the one-woman show "Feeling Sad/Mad with Ellie Kemper" and has appeared in comedy sketches onFunny or Die, the comedy website started by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company, Gary [22] Sanchez Productions. Kemper performing "Feeling Sad/Mad with Ellie Kemper" at the Upright Citizens Brigade TheaterKemper gained some Internet fame in August 2007 for her part in in 2008. She has performed for several shows for "Blowjob Girl", a humor video on the sketch comedy site Derrick the Brigade. Comedy. The video, which was circulated on the popular site CollegeHumor, was a two-minute close-up of Kemper offering to perform oral sex on her boyfriend, but startling him by promising to bite and smash his genitals, which she seems to [23] [24] believe is arousing. As of April 2011, the video has been viewed more than 18.2 million times on YouTube. [25] Kemper said in an April 2010 interview with The A.V. Club that "It’s just one video in a sea of many." Kemper [26] has also contributed an article to CollegeHumor entitled "Regarding Our Decision Never To See Me Again." She also had a minor role in the 2009 movieMystery Team.

She also co-starred in the fake iPhone commercial onLate Night With Conan O'Brienin January 2007, six months [27] before the first iPhone was released by Apple Inc. [20] Kemper appeared in the Sofia Coppola comedy-dramaSomewherealso appeared in. She Bridesmaids, a comedy [28] produced by Judd Apatow and starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph.

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The Office “like being in a dream, except the dream is real and I can reach out and touch them. Except I am trying notBeing on set with them is to touch them too much, because I was raised right.” [6] Ellie Kemper, onThe Office

Kemper auditioned for a role inParks and Recreation, an NBC comedy series started in 2009 by Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, creator of the seriesThe Office. She was not cast in the role, but received a call back to audition for a supporting role inThe Officeas Erin Hannon, a secretary filling in for the regular secretary Pam Beesly when she briefly left the job at the end of the fifth season. Kemper was cast in the role, and started appearing in the show in April 2009. The character was originally written to be more sarcastic and dry, but the writers changed her to be more perky and optimistic to more closely resemble Kemper herself. Kemper described the character as "an exaggerated [2] [6] version of myself". Kemper described herself as a "huge fan" of the show and was thrilled to be on the show. Although the character was originally intended for 4 episodes, the producers were impressed with Kemper and [2] signed her as a regular in the sixth season. Jennifer Celotta, a screenwriter with the series, described Kemper as a [29] "fun addition" to the show.

Kemper received positive reviews for her role inThe Office. Alan Sepinwall, television columnist withThe [2] Star-LedgerJoshua Ostroff of, praised the "infectious joy and sweetness" she brought to the show. Eye Weekly described Erin as one of the best new television characters of the 2008–2009 season and said, "Erin’s high-grade adorability, up-for-anything attitude and sheer niceness is unlike anyone else in the office, adding a welcome new [30] [31] wrinkle for next season." Andy Shaw ofTV Fodderand Joshsaid she "adds some freshness to the cast" McAuliffe ofThe Times-Tribunein Scranton, Pennsylvania, said he liked Erin's "cheerful, appealingly goofy [32] personality". In October 2009, Kemper appeared inSubtle Sexuality, a set of threeOfficewebisodes about efforts [2] by Erin and Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling) to start a girl group.

Filmography b21 Jump Street(2012) as Ms. Griggs bBridesmaids(2011) as Becca bSomewhere(2010) as Claire bGet Him to the Greek(2010) as Pinnacle Executives bThe Office(TV series) (2009–present) as Erin Hannon Cayman Went(2009) as Woman from L.A. Important Things With Demetri Martin(2008–2009) Various Roles Mystery Team(2009) as Jamie Redeeming Rainbow(2007) as Shelly

References [1] "IGN: Ellie Kemper Biography" (http:/ /stars.ign.com/objects/029/029656_biography.html).IGN. . Retrieved November 18, 2009. [2] Pennington, Gail (December 13, 2009). "From VP queen ...to 'The Office'" (http:/ /www.stltoday.com/entertainment/ article_978bc3fd-852f-5d9e-b114-489bb627d8b2.html).St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . Retrieved December 16, 2010. [3] "Bridal for Dorothy A. Jannarone" (http:/ /select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract. html?res=F10D14FA385F14768FDDAE0894D1405B858BF1D3).The New York Times. September 7, 1975. . [4] "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcFjnCoRa3U).YouTube. January 26, 2011. . Retrieved April 5, 2011. [5] "1999 Preseason Women's Field Hockey Roster" (http:/ /replay.web.archive.org/20000310143533/http://www.fansonly.com/schools/ prin/sports/w-fieldh/mtt/prin-w-fieldh-mtt.html). FansOnly.com. Archived from the original (http://www.fansonly.com/schools/prin/ sports/w-fieldh/mtt/prin-w-fieldh-mtt.html) on March 10, 2000. . [6] Tomlinson, Brett (April 15, 2009). "Office Addition" (http:/ /blogs.princeton.edu/paw/2009/04/office_addition.html).Princeton Alumni Weekly. . Retrieved May 23, 2009. [7] "Ellie Kemper" (http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/performers/2983).Upright Citizens Brigade. . Retrieved March 22, 2009.