KATE McKINNON
In her three years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Kate McKinnon has become one of its biggest draws, gifting us with slam-dunk impressions of Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Lynch, Hillary Clinton and Justin Bieber. She´s also created some great original characters, like Olya Povlatsky, a Russian woman living in deplorable conditions; slutty barfly Sheila Sauvage; Les “Dyke” Dykawitz of TV cop team Dyke & Fats and Barbara DeDrew, the plain-dressing lesbian co-owner of cat rescue place Whiskers ´R´ We. McKinnon´s hire made history for SNL, as she is the show´s only out lesbian cast member ever and its first openly queer cast member in more than 25 years. Before SNL, she was part of Logo´s The Big Gay Sketch Show, which showcased one of her funniest characters, Fitzwilliam, a sweet British boy who wants a vagina. When not in front of SNL´s cameras, McKinnon has been quietly building a film career with parts in the lesbian-themed comedy Life Partners and Intramural. Next summer, she´ll join fellow SNL cast members Leslie Jones and Cecily Strong (along with SNL alum Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy) in an all-female revamp of Ghostbusters. And that´s only one of many projects in the pipeline. “I have a lot of plans,” she recently told Entertainment Weekly. “Lots of things up my sleeve.”
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