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Katie Finneran (born January 22, 1971)[1] is an American actress best known for her Tony Award-winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.[2]

Katie Finneran
Finneran in Annie The Musical, October 2012
Born	(1971-01-22) January 22, 1971 (age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Darren Goldstein ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	2

Personal life

Finneran was born in Chicago, Illinois, of Irish Catholic extraction. She was raised in Miami, Florida, where she attended the New World School of the Arts High School.[3] She attended Carnegie Mellon University[4] in Pittsburgh for one year before moving to New York City at age 19 to study acting with Uta Hagen[4] at HB Studio.[5]

Outside of acting, Finneran has had many "day jobs" to augment her income, including a ringside girl at a boxing ring, waitress, and perfume spray girl at Bloomingdale's.^{[citation needed]} Finneran and actor Darren Goldstein married on August 22, 2010;[3] the couple have two children.[6]

Career

Film

Finneran's biggest film role was as Judy Rose in the remake of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Her film credits include You've Got Mail, Chicken Little, Liberty Heights, Bewitched, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and Death to Smoochy.

Television

She co-starred in television series Wonderfalls. She was also featured as a part of the cast on the Fox show The Inside, in the short-lived CBS sitcom Bram & Alice, and in many guest roles in shows like Frasier, Sex and the City and Oz. In 2007 Finneran was featured in the new series Drive. She played the sister of the main character, Alex Tully (Nathan Fillion).

In an interview for the DVD of the full series of Wonderfalls, Finneran said that when asked if she felt nervous about playing lesbian immigration attorney Sharon Tyler on Wonderfalls she replied, "I'd rather have people think that I'm a lesbian than a lawyer."

In 2012, she co-starred in the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter.[7] From 2013 to 2014, she played Leigh Henry on the NBC sitcom, The Michael J. Fox Show.[8] She has also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline.

In April 2019, CBS announced that Finneran would be starring in a recurring role as Naomi in the CBS All Access series Why Women Kill.[9]

In 2022, Finneran starred in The Gilded Age on HBO.[10]

Theatre

Finneran "has played barflies and rich girls, giggly ingénues and world-weary lowlifes..."[4]

She played a "lovely but dim fashion model"[11] in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Proposals in 1997–98, Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret (from November 21, 2000 to January 18, 2001),[12] and call girl Cora in the 1999 Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh, opposite Kevin Spacey.[13] She also has appeared in My Favorite Year with Tim Curry, John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect, and Smell of the Kill, with Kristen Johnston.

She won the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2002 for her role as Brooke Ashton in the Broadway revival of Noises Off.[14]

Finneran appeared Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theater in the Greg Kotis play Pig Farm, in the original opening cast as Tina. The play opened in June 2006 and ran through September 23, 2006.[15]

Finneran appeared in the original cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which opened Off-Broadway at the Westside Theater in September 19, 2009 for a four-week engagement ending on October 18, 2009. The play "....is performed by a rotating cast of five. For the first four weeks of the run Ms. [Rosie] O'Donnell is joined by the actresses Tyne Daly, Katie Finneran and Natasha Lyonne, and Samantha Bee..."[16][17] Finneran returned to the show (after her initial four-week engagement) on November 18, 2009, to fill in for Kristin Chenoweth,[18] and continued on in the play in the next four-week rotation as well (from December 14, 2009, to January 3, 2010).[19][20] She appeared in the first Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises as Marge MacDougall, opposite Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. The show opened March 27, 2010 and Finneran left the show on October 10, 2010 because of her pregnancy.[21] She won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for this role.[22]

Finneran played the role of Miss Hannigan in the 2012 Broadway revival of the musical Annie.[23] She left the role in May 2013 to pursue a TV pilot.

Finneran returned to Broadway in 2015 to star in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play as Julia Budder.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Night of the Living Dead	Judy Rose Larson
1998	You've Got Mail	Maureen
1999	Liberty Heights	Mrs. Johnson
2002	Death to Smoochy	Woman in Crowd	Uncredited
2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous	Head Bar Patron	Uncredited
2005	Bewitched	Sheila Wyatt
2006	Broken Bridges	Patsi
2007	Firehouse Dog	Felicity Hammer
2007	Walk the Talk	Linda
2007	Staten Island	Mrs. Dickenson
2009	Baby on Board	Sylvia Chambers
2011	Company	Amy	Filmed production
2013	Movie 43	Angie	Segment: "The Catch"
2020	Freaky	Coral Kessler

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Super Force	Allison	Episode: "Prisoners of Love"
1998	Sex and the City	Ellen	Episode: "Models and Mortals"
1999	All My Children	Nurse	1 episode
1999	Frasier	Poppy Delafield	2 episodes
2001	Oz	Patricia Galson	Episode: "Famous Last Words"
2002	Bram & Alice	Kate	8 episodes
2004	Wonderfalls	Sharon Tyler	13 episodes
2005–2006	The Inside	Special Agent Melody Sim	13 episodes
2007	Drive	Becca Freeman	Episode: "Let the Games Begin"
2009	Royal Pains	Julie Kingsley	Episode: "The Honeymoon's Over"
2010	Mercy	Roxanne Flegenheimer	Episode: "Wake Up, Bill"
2010	Damages	Actress	Episode: "All That Crap About Your Family"
2011–2013	I Hate My Teenage Daughter	Nikki Miller	13 episodes
2013–2014	The Michael J. Fox Show	Leigh Henry	22 episodes
2015	Elementary	Barbara Conway	Episode: "Seed Money"
2015–2017	Bloodline	Belle Rayburn	27 episodes
2017–2020	Brockmire	Lucy Brockmire	9 episodes
2018	The Looming Tower	Sheri	4 episodes
2018	Murphy Brown	Christy Shepherd	Episode: "The Girl Who Cried About Wolf"
2019	The Good Fight	Valerie Peyser	Episode: "The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance"
2019	Blindspot	Sheryl Meeks	Episode: "Coder to Killer"
2019	Why Women Kill	Naomi Harte	8 episodes
2022	The Gilded Age	Anne Morris

References

External links

• Katie Finneran at IMDb
• "Promises, Promises: Katie Finneran leaves 10 Oct", New York Theatre Guide, August 24, 2010

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Katie Finneran (nacida el 22 de enero de 1971) es una actriz estadounidense mejor conocida por sus actuaciones ganadoras del Premio Tony en la obra de Broadway, Noises Off en 2002 y el musical Promises, Promises en 2010.[1][2]

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Кэ́тлин (Кэ́ти) Фи́ннеран (англ. Kathleen «Katie» Finneran; 22 января 1971, Чикаго, Иллинойс, США[2]) — американская актриса и телережиссёр .

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