Ellie Kemper’s Biography, Wiki, Net Worth, Movies, TV Shows

American actress and comedian Ellie Kemper has received nominations for seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, two Critics’ Choice Television Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Satellite Awards.

The characters of Erin Hannon in The Office (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019) are Kemper’s most well-known performances. For the latter, she received two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Additionally, Kemper has acted in movies including Bridesmaids (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012), Sex Tape (2014), and most recently Home Sweet Home Alone (2021). My Squirrel Days, her first novel, was published in 2018.

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42-year-old Elizabeth Claire Kemper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 2, 1980. She is one of the four children born to David Woods Kemper, a member of one of Missouri’s richest families, and Dorothy Ann “Dotty” Kemper (née Jannarone). Her father is the executive chairman of the Kemper family-founded bank holding firm, Commerce Bancshares. She is the great-great granddaughter of banker, insurance executive, and railroad tycoon William Thornton Kemper Sr. and the granddaughter of Mildred Lane Kemper, the museum bearing her name at Washington University in St. Louis.

Carrie Kemper, a television writer, has an older sister named Kemper. Kemper has German, English, French, and Italian heritage (from her maternal grandfather). Kemper was brought up as a devout Catholic and still is. Kemper made her debut at the Veiled Prophet Ball in 1999 at the age of 19, and was crowned the Veiled Prophet’s Queen of Love and Beauty. Due to the Ball’s history, which was seen as “racist and snobbish,” her presence caused controversy in 2021. As a result of the criticism, Kemper issued a statement condemning white supremacy and expressing regret for taking part in the event. She said that while she was aware of the event’s “unquestionably racist, sexist, and elitist heritage,” she was mature enough to do her own research.

She was five years old when her family relocated to St. Louis. She went to John Burroughs School for her high school education and Conway Elementary School in the wealthy Ladue area, where she became interested in theater and improv. She starred in a school play with actor Jon Hamm, one of her professors.

English major Ellie Kemper received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 2002. Kemper participated in the Quipfire improv comedy group at Princeton, which was well-known for its creative tricks. She belonged to the Ivy Club as well. Kemper wrote an 82-page senior thesis with the subject “Isn’t It Ironic?” for her undergraduate degree under the guidance of Susan Wolfson, with assistance from Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher. Ellie Kemper was a member of Princeton’s field hockey team that won the 1998 national title; she said she sat on the bench “about 97 percent” of the time, but she left the team the following year to concentrate on theater. Kemper spent a year at Worcester College in Oxford where she pursued a master’s in English literature.

While attending Princeton, Ellie Kemper maintained her passion in improv comedy. Kemper was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club, a traveling company of musical comedy theater, as well as Quipfire!, Princeton’s oldest improv comedy club. She also made an appearance in a Dunkin’ Donuts radio commercial. She obtained her Screen Actors Guild membership by working as a commercial advertiser for Kmart’s one-week tent sale. She was shown camping with her on-screen spouse in the advertisement, and a spider was seen crawling over her face in another frame.

The Gastineau Girls on E! Television has been referred to be Kemper’s “breakout role,” and she often made guest appearances on Important Things with Demetri Martin and Late Night with Conan O’Brien in the late 2000s. Despite the fact that the programme was reality TV, her part was prewritten. She has appeared on The P.A. on Fuse TV. In a PSA about teen voter apathy, Kemper made an appearance on The Colbert Report in October 2008. Many of the sketch comedy programs Kemper has created have been with her comedic collaborator and fellow Princeton alum Scott Eckert.

She contributes to McSweeney’s and The Onion, two prominent national satirical publications. She also provides content for The Huffington Post. Kemper joined the People’s Improv Theatre and the local Upright Citizens Brigade ensemble after relocating to New York City, two improvisational comedy and sketch comedy theaters. For the Brigade, she has made appearances in a number of productions, including Gang Bang, Death and/or Despair, Listen Kid, and The Improvised Mystery. She performed at the UCB with the in-house improv groups Mailer Daemon and fwand. She plays with the house improv company Big Black Car at the People’s Improv Theatre.

Ellie Kemper tried out for a role on the NBC sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live in August 2008, however she was not hired. Kemper was selected as one of Variety magazine’s “10 Comics To Watch” in July 2009. She made an appearance in How to Kick People in 2007, a comedy-and-literature performance. She co-wrote and starred in the one-woman play “Dumb Girls” presented by the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in March 2008. She has participated in the one-woman performance “Feeling Sad/Mad with Ellie Kemper,” and she has made appearances in comedy skits on Funny or Die, the website created by Gary Sanchez Productions, the production business founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Ellie Kemper received attention online in August 2007 for her performance in the humor clip “Blowjob Girl” on the sketch comedy website Derrick Comedy. In an April 2010 interview with The A.V. Club, Kemper said the following about the video: “I really don’t enjoy that video, and I wish that I hadn’t done it, even though I know that it’s a joke. I don’t think it’s that hilarious, and I don’t want it to be the pinnacle of my work, so I hate that it kind of went popular. Even though it’s just one video in a sea of many, it has made me realize that I don’t want to make another one like it.

Additionally, Kemper provided CollegeHumor with an essay titled “Regarding Our Decision Never to See Me Again.” She had a supporting part in the 2009 movie Mystery Team as well. Six months before the first iPhone was introduced, in January 2007, Kemper appeared in a spoof iPhone advertisement on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In 2010, Kemper had an appearance in Sofia Coppola’s comedy-drama Somewhere. She made a 2011 appearance in Bridesmaids. The animated comedy American Dad! will include Kemper as the voice of a character, it was revealed on April 3, 2013.

She went on an audition for a part in the 2009-launched NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, which was created by The Office creator Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. Despite not getting the part, she got a callback to try out for a supporting role in The Office as Erin Hannon, a secretary who temporarily took over for regular secretary Pam Beesly at the conclusion of the fifth season. In April 2009, Kemper was given the part and debuted on the program. In order to make the character more like Kemper herself, the authors modified her from being more snarky and dry to being more cheery and upbeat.

The persona was “an overblown representation of myself,” according to Kemper. Kemper expressed her delight at being on the program and that she was a “big fan” of it. The character was only supposed to appear in four episodes, but the producers were so pleased by Kemper that they decided to make her a regular in the sixth season. The series’ scriptwriter Jennifer Celotta called Kemper a “fun addition” to the program.

Positive reviews were given to Ellie Kemper’s performance in The Office. The Star-television Ledger’s writer Alan Sepinwall lauded her for bringing “infectious brightness and tenderness” to the program. Erin was named one of the finest new television characters of the 2008–2009 season by Joshua Ostroff of Eye Weekly. He said that Erin “adds a pleasant new twist for next season” with her high-grade adorability, up-for-anything attitude, and plain niceness. She “adds some freshness to the group,” according to Andy Shaw of TV Fodder, while Josh McAuliffe of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, appreciated Erin’s “cheerful, appealingly funny demeanor.” Following Steve Carell’s departure, she has been cited by many reviewers as the eighth season of the show’s best element.

In a trio of The Office webisodes from October 2009 called Subtle Sexuality, which followed Erin and Kelly Kapoor’s (Mindy Kaling) attempts to form a female group, Kemper made an appearance. She is a cast member of the Unbreakable comedy series on Netflix. Kimmy Schmidt plays the title role in the movie “Fish Out of Water.” She portrays a former forced cult member who wants to leave her little hometown’s victim mentality and go to New York. She was nominated several times for the Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on the program, which was warmly praised.

Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Tamron Hall, and Willie Geist were the other temporary co-hosts of Today in the summer of 2015. Ellie Kemper also appeared on the show. On America’s Got Talent’s 14th season in 2019, she made an appearance as a guest judge. Nevertheless, Kemper recorded the narration for A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo in 2018. For the 2019 film The Legends of Greemulax, which is a defictionalization of a book written by her character Kimmy Schmidt, she also recorded the audiobook. She also released My Squirrel Days, her first novel, in 2018.

Michael Koman and Ellie Kemper wed in 2012; they have one child. Her spouse is a producer and writer of comedies. Kemper and her spouse got engaged in 2012, and they wed on July 7, 2012. Two boys, born in August 2016 and September 2019, were born to the couple. Kemper claimed that her Jewish husband had consented for them to raise their children as Roman Catholics on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Midway through 2022, James Koman and Matthew Koman, Ellie Kemper’s children, and her husband Michael Koman are still together and enjoying their lives.

What is Ellie Kemper’s net worth? The estimated net worth of Ellie Kemper is $10 million. Her work as an actor and comedian is her primary source of income. With additional professional earnings, Ellie Kemper makes more than $2 million a year in pay. She is one of the most wealthy and well-known actresses in the country. Her lucrative job has allowed her to enjoy opulent living and expensive travel. Ellie Kemper has a wonderful body weight that fits her personality and a pleasing height of 1.65 meters.