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List Of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Episodes
''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' is an American sitcom created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Ellie Kemper in the title role, that has streamed on Netflix since March 6, 2015. Originally set for a 13-episode first season on NBC for spring 2015, the show was sold to Netflix and given a two-season order. The fourth and final season concluded on January 25, 2019. On May 8, 2019, it was announced that the series would return with an interactive special, which premiered on May 12, 2020. The series follows 29-year-old Kimmy Schmidt (Kemper) as she adjusts to life in New York City after her rescue from a doomsday cult in Indiana where she and three other women were held by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) for 15 years. Determined to be seen as something other than a victim and armed only with a positive attitude, Kimmy decides to restart her life by moving to New York City, where she quickly befriends her street-wise landlady Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane), finds a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' is an American sitcom created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Ellie Kemper in the title role. It premiered on March 6, 2015, on Netflix and ran for four seasons, ending on January 25, 2019. An interactive special premiered on May 12, 2020. The series follows 29-year-old Kimmy Schmidt (Kemper) as she adjusts to life after being rescued from a doomsday cult in the fictional town of Durnsville, Indiana, where she and three other women were held captive by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne ( Jon Hamm) for 15 years. Determined to be seen as something other than a victim and armed only with a positive attitude, she decides to restart her life by moving to New York City, where she quickly befriends her street-wise landlady Lillian Kaushtupper ( Carol Kane), finds a roommate in struggling actor Titus Andromedon ( Tituss Burgess), and gains a job as a nanny for melancholic and out-of-touch socialite Jacqueline Voorhees ( Jane Krakowski). Thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tituss Burgess
Tituss Burgess (born February 21, 1979) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in several Broadway musicals and is known for his high tenor voice. He is best known for starring as Titus Andromedon on the Netflix comedy series '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2020), for which he received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He was also featured in '' Schmigadoon!'' (2023). On the Broadway stage, Burgess originated the role of Sebastian in ''The Little Mermaid'' and played the role of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the 2009 revival of ''Guys and Dolls''. In 2023, he played the role of Harold Zidler in ''Moulin Rouge!'' and took over the title role in '' Oh, Mary!'' in March 2025. Personal life Born and raised in Athens, Georgia, Burgess attended Cedar Shoals High School where he was active in the theatre program. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Art degree in music. Burgess is gay. After college, Burgess moved to Orlando, Florida t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Head Shot
A head shot or headshot is a photographic portrait in which the focus is on the subject's face. The term is usually applied to professional profile images on social media, images used on online dating profiles, and promotional images of actors, models, and authors. Entertainment industry In theater, film, and television, actors, models, singers, and other entertainers are often required to include a head shot, along with their résumé, when applying for a job. Those head shots are intended for helping them land a career, an actor head shot should help casting directors understand the person exactly as he or she is (i.e., age group & ethnic background), while the actor hopes that the head shot will inspire the casting director to hire him or her. Head shots often feature the actor or actress facing off-center. A performer will often have head shots expressing different poses and expressions to give a potential employer an idea of the subject's range of appearances or expression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Passing (racial Identity)
In the United States of America, racial passing occurred when a person who was categorized as Black in regard to their race in the United States of America, sought to be accepted or perceived (" to pass") as a member of another racial group, usually White. Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a black person, especially a Mulatto person who assimilated into the white majority to escape the legal and social conventions of racial segregation and discrimination. In the Antebellum South, passing as White was a temporary disguise used as a means of escaping slavery. United States Passing for white Although anti-miscegenation laws outlawing racial intermarriage existed in the North American Colonies as early as 1664, there were no laws preventing or prosecuting the rape of enslaved girls and women. Rape of slaves was legal and encouraged during slavery to increase the slave population. For generations, enslaved black mothers bore mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lakota Sioux
The Lakota (; or ) are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux (from ), they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota (). Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. They speak — the Lakota language, the westernmost of three closely related languages that belong to the Siouan language family. The seven bands or "sub-tribes" of the Lakota are: * (, Burned Thighs) * ("They Scatter Their Own") * (, Without Bows) * (Hunkpapa, "End Village", Camps at the End of the Camp Circle) * (Miniconjou, "Plant Near Water", Planters by the Water) * ("Blackfeet" or "Blackfoot") * (Two Kettles) Notable Lakota persons include (Sitting Bull) from the , ( Touch the Clouds) from the Miniconjou; (Black Elk), ( Red Cloud), and (Billy Mills), all ; (Crazy Horse) from the and Miniconjou, and ( Spotted Tail) from the Brulé. Activists from the late 20th century to present include R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John McMartin
John Francis McMartin (August 21, 1929 – July 6, 2016) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. He made his off-Broadway debut in '' Little Mary Sunshine'' in 1959, and acted on Broadway for more than 50 years. He won a Theatre World Award in 1960 and was nominated for a Tony for his role in ''Sweet Charity'' in 1966. On television, McMartin appeared on the soap opera ''As the World Turns,'' and the TV shows '' East Side West Side,'' ''Beauty and the Beast,'' ''The Golden Girls'',''The Bob Newhart Show, and'' ''Murder, She Wrote''. He also had film roles in ''All the President's Men'' (1976), '' Blow Out'', and '' Legal Eagles''. Life and career McMartin was born in Warsaw, Indiana, on August 21, 1929, and raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, he joined the United States Army and became a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division. He attended Columbia College Chicago, but did not graduate and later attended college in New York. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jack Burditt
Jack Burditt is an American producer and screenwriter who has worked on television shows like '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', ''Frasier'', ''30 Rock'', '' Last Man Standing'', ''Modern Family'', and ''The Mindy Project''. He won two Emmy awards for his work on ''Frasier'' and three as an Executive Producer on ''30 Rock''. Biography Burditt is the son of the late writer and producer George Burditt and Joyce Burditt. He has one brother, Paul, and one sister, Ellen. He worked as a writer on ''30 Rock'' and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season. Burditt created the comedy '' Last Man Standing'', which premiered in fall 2011 on ABC. The show was moved to Fox in its seventh season. Filmography * '' Nobody Wants This'' (2024-present) * '' The Santa Clauses'' (2022–2023) * ''Modern Family'' (2017–2020) * '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019) * ''The Mindy Project'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beth McCarthy-Miller
Beth McCarthy-Miller (born September 3, 1963) is an American television director. Shows she has directed include ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''30 Rock''. Early and personal life McCarthy-Miller was born on September 3, 1963, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She has four older brothers and four older sisters. She was raised in Cranford, New Jersey. She attended the University of Maryland, where she was a DJ and majored in radio, television and film. While in college she interned at CNN and MTV. She is married to a high school teacher, with whom she has a son born around 2006. Career McCarthy-Miller worked as a line producer's assistant and assistant director at MTV and began directing in 1988. During her nine years with MTV, she worked on ''MTV Unplugged'' with Nirvana, Neil Young, Elton John, Tony Bennett, and k.d. lang. She worked for '' The Week in Rock'' and later '' The Jon Stewart Show.'' She was the director of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' for eleven years. She left ''SN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Primetime Emmy Award For Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Prime time, or peak time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term ''prime-time'' is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the United States), from 8:00p.m. to 11:00p.m. ( Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. ( Central and Mountain Time). In India and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of programmes that are aired on television between 8:00p.m. and 10:00p.m. local time. Asia Bangladesh In Bangladesh, the 19:00-to-22:00 time slot is known as prime time. Several national broadcasters, like Maasranga Television, Gazi TV, Channel 9, and Channel i, broadcast their prime-time shows from 20:00 to 23:00 after their primetime news at 19:00. During Islamic holidays, most of the television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dylan Gelula
Dylan Nicole Gelula (born May 7, 1994) is an American actress who is best known for her role of Xanthippe on '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', as well as for her work in independent films. Gelula made her film debut as the lead actress in romantic drama film '' First Girl I Loved'' (2016) and has since acted in the films ''Flower'' (2017), '' Support the Girls'' (2018), ''Her Smell'' (2018), '' Shithouse'' (2020), and '' Dream Scenario'' (2023), and '' Smile 2'' (2024). Early life Gelula was born on May 7, 1994, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father is an Ashkenazi Jew, and she was raised in Reform Judaism. She attended Lower Merion High School and recalls having a difficult time in high school, having been "very lonely, but very comfortable being alone," and showed up to school so infrequently that she was forced to either repeat her senior year or drop out. She ended up dropping out and moving to Los Angeles by herself at the age of seventeen. Career Gelula began her acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sam Means
Sam Means is an American comedy writer. He won three Emmy awards for his work on ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'', and wrote for both ''30 Rock'' and '' Parks and Recreation'' on NBC as well as ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Great News, Girls5eva,'' and for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler when they hosted '' The Golden Globes.'' Together with Robert Carlock, he created the Netflix animated show, ''Mulligan'' and the upcoming NBC series '' The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins''. Means received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, and an M.Phil. in philosophy from King's College, Cambridge. He began his career as a cartoonist for ''The New Yorker'' and as a contributing writer for ''The Onion ''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication ...''. References External links Dartmout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matt Lauer
Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is a former American television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the news anchor for NBC's ''Today (American TV program), Today'' from 1994 to 1997. In 1997, Lauer was moved from the news desk to the host's chair and was co-anchor of ''Today'' from 1997 to 2017. He was also a frequent contributor to the evening news magazine ''Dateline NBC''. With NBC, Lauer hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. In November 2017, Lauer's contract was terminated by NBC after NBC reported receiving "a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace" and added that NBC had "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident." Early life Lauer was born in New York City, the son of Marilyn Lauer, a bouti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
