Ellie Kemper

I went to John Burroughs School in St. Louis, where former graduate Jon Hamm and her teacher drama.

The test of "Saturday Night Live" (1975).

It's a graduate of the hole in the city of New York, and held there with a lot of improvisors, including Christine shawl, and Kurt Braunohler Joe Lipari.

Is the granddaughter of Mildred Lane Kemper, and with the same name at the Museum of Art Mildred Lane Kemper at Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri), which the family donated $ 5 million.

Her father was David Woods Kemper, Chairman and CEO of Commerce Bancshares, a bank holding company founded by the family of Kemper. (Her father Alhvdh grandfather was William Thornton Kemper banker father).

Older sister television writer Carrie Kemper.

Is of Italian origin (from her grandfather's mother), and German.

Attended Princeton University, graduating in 2002 with a degree in English. I studied English at a later time for a year at the University of Oxford.

While attending Princeton University, and was a member of Quipfire! , Known as improvised comedy group, as well as the Princeton Triangle Club, a musical comedy theater tour in the band.

Played hockey at Princeton University in the 1999 season, although it claims to be sat on the bench, "nearly 97%" at the time. Went to the hockey team on the national championship in her freshman year, but withdrew from the team in subsequent years to focus on the stage.

Contributing writer for the satirical newspaper "Onion", she also has been published in "Sweeney for Mac", the literary magazine founded by Dave Eggers.

Test for a role in "Gardens and Recreation" (2009), comedy series launched by the creators of the "Office" (2005). It does not get the part, but he did not receive an invitation to return to the test a supporting role in "Office" as Hannon Erin, a receptionist / secretary, who replaced the character of Pam Pam Beesly Hilbert when he left Dunder Mifflin to join the Michael Scott Paper was cast company Camper the role and began to show in this exhibition in April 2009. If what is meant in the original figure for 4 episodes, producers were impressed with the Kemper and signed as a regular in the sixth season.