Kate Flannery
Flannery at the June 2009 premiere for The Proposal
Born	Katherine Patricia Flannery (1964-06-10) June 10, 1964 (age 48) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

Katherine Patricia "Kate" Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress best known for playing the role of Meredith Palmer on the NBC hit series The Office.

Personal life[link]

Flannery was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Saint John Neumann School and Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is one of seven children in an Irish-American family.^[1][2]

Flannery is one of only two cast members from The Office who is actually from Pennsylvania, where the show is set. The other is Zach Woods, who plays the character Gabe.

Career[link]

Improvisation[link]

A former member of The Second City's National Touring Company, Flannery is an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theater, where she created over 15 shows including "The Miss Vagina Pageant" and "The Real Live Brady Bunch".

The Lampshades, her comedy lounge act with veteran improviser Scot Robinson, has been running in Hollywood at the iO WEST stage for over four years and was seen at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. The Lampshades was New York magazine's "LA Pick" for 2006 and was declared "Best Saturday Comedy Show of the Year" by LA Weekly.^{[citation needed]}

Stage work[link]

Flannery played Neely O'Hara in Off Broadway hit Valley of the Dolls at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City and Los Angeles. Also in Los Angeles, she played the teen prostitute and Blair's sister in The Phacts of Life at the Renberg Theatre and in the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner production of Hildy, Hildy, Three Feet Under at The Evidence Room.

She is the musical director of the Los Angeles Drama Club, teaching Shakespeare to children and young adults.

Filmography[link]

• Wizards of Waverly Place (2010) as Elaine Finkle
• Finger Babies (2010) as Teacher
• You (2009) as Airline Counter Girl
• Coco Lipshitz: Behind the Laughter (2009) as Reporter
• Wild Girls Gone (2007) as Reading Circle #4
• Jesus People (2007) as Sharon Nyenhuis
• Danny Roane: First Time Director (2006) as Marla
• The Office (2005–present) as Meredith (129 episodes)
• I'm Not Gay (2005) as Secretary
• The Heir Apparent (2005) as Heidi
• Carolina (2003) as Café Waitress
• Life Without Dick (2002) as Crampy Legs Partygoer
• Amy Stiller's Breast (2002) as Reporter
• Trick (1999) as Ridiculous Writer
• Can't Stop Dancing (1999) as Tonia

Music[link]

Flannery was a member of the band Mono Puff using the stage name "Lady Puff". She toured with the band and sang on their second album, It's Fun To Steal.

Television[link]

Flannery currently appears as the alcoholic, divorced, single mother Meredith Palmer on the television comedy The Office. Before The Office, she made appearances on The Bernie Mac Show, Boomtown, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. She currently blogs (sometimes as her Office character) on MySpace.

In 2008, Flannery was a talent scout on Last Comic Standing with her The Office costar Brian Baumgartner, and she appeared with the cast of The Office on Celebrity Family Feud.

Flannery also appeared as a judge in a 2009 episode of Iron Chef America.^[3]

She has also appeared on The Jay Leno Show portraying Wendy in a skit at the time of the burger chain's 40th anniversary,^[4] Mother Earth in a skit on the November 19, 2009 episode and Mrs. Claus on December 21, 2009.

In an interview on Chelsea Lately, Flannery stated that she'll be playing Harper's mother on the Disney Channel series, Wizards of Waverly Place.

She was a contestant on Don't Forget the Lyrics.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kate Flannery

• Kate Flannery on MySpace
• Kate Flannery at the Internet Movie Database
• The Lampshades, Flannery's comedy lounge act
• Kate Flannery video interview on FanLib

Look up Kate is a slag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Kate is a feminine given name. It is sometimes a short form of Katherine, which is Greek meaning pure, blessed, virginal and popularity. It may refer to:

People with the given name Kate:

• Kate (given name)

In meteorology:

• Hurricane Kate (1985), which hit the US
• Typhoon Kate (1970), a super typhoon that struck the Philippines

Ships

• CSS Kate was a 165' wooden hulled sidewheel steamer of 477 tons used by the Confederacy as a blockade runner that made 20 successful runs through the Union blockade during the American Civil War.

Other:

• "Kate" a young adult novel by Valerie Sherrard
• Kate (song), a song by Ben Folds Five
• Nakajima B5N, a Japanese torpedo bomber, Allied reporting name "Kate"
• Kate (text editor), a text editor for KDE
• KATE, a radio station in Minnesota, USA
• "Kate" is rhyming slang for Army (it rhymes with Kate Carney)
• An alternative title of Crabbit Old Woman, a poem attributed to Phyllis McCormack
• The Kâte language, a Papuan language

See also[link]

• Catherina (and similar spellings)
• Kathleen

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Oscar Nunez
Nuñez in Los Angeles, California in February 2009
Born	(1958-11-18) November 18, 1958 (age 53)[1] Cuba
Occupation	Actor/Comedian
Years active	2000–present

Oscar Nunez (born November 18, 1958), sometimes credited as Oscar Núñez, is a Cuban American actor and comedian. He currently appears as Dunder Mifflin's paper supply accountant, Oscar Martinez, on NBC's The Office.

Career[link]

Born in Cuba, Nunez moved to Union City, New Jersey when he was fourteen years old.^[2] He is bilingual in English and Spanish. Having attended various colleges in New York, including Fashion Institute of Technology and the Parsons School of Design for writing, Nunez became a certified dental technician from Magna Institute of Dental Technology.^[3]

Nunez started his comedy career in New York, founding and performing over 300 shows with The Shock of the Funny theater company. The troupe was active in the East Village for several years. In addition to his work with Shock, Nunez appeared in theater in New York and Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles in the mid 1990s. In LA, he joined The Groundlings and performed in their Sunday Company. While with the Groundlings, he wrote and starred in a production called "Smooth Down There."

In 1997, Nunez graduated from the Warner Brothers Comedy Writer’s Workshop. In 1999, he was a finalist in the ABC Latino Writers Project.

In 1998, he appeared on the game show Match Game, wearing a Dio shirt, but was not a winner.

Nunez was Adam Carolla's stand-in on The Man Show.

Nunez's television credits include Malcolm in the Middle, 24, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911, The District and Mad TV, in addition to his current role on The Office. He was also the creator and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Halfway Home, in which he played the character Eulogio Pla.

His film credits include The Italian Job (as a security guard), Reno 911: Miami, and When Do We Eat?. In 2009, Nunez recently played the role of Ramon, the caterer, stripper, soda jerk, and finally clergy performing wedding ceremony in The Proposal.

Nunez appeared as one of eight judges in the 2010 Miss USA Contest, posing a controversial question about the Arizona illegal immigrant law to Miss Oklahoma USA, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, the first runner-up. Nunez was booed by the audience before finishing the question; however he asked the audience to wait until he finished the question before they reacted. Although Miss Woolard replied that she supports the law as a state rights issue, she added that she is against racial profiling.^[4]

Filmography[link]

• Celebrity Family Feud
• The Proposal
• Fred: The Movie (minor role)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1, Episode 3; Car Park Attendant)
• "The Italian Job" (minor role)
• Reno 911 "Spanish Mike" Alvarez
• The Office as Oscar Martinez
• Bob's Burgers Episode Sheesh! Cab, Bob?

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Oscar Nuñez

• Oscar Nuñez at the Internet Movie Database
• Oscar Nuñez at NBC.com's The Office
• Oscar Nunez at Omnipop.com
• Interview with Oscar Nunez at WickedInfo.com