4/2/2023 0 Comments Kate mckinnon partnerThat Anderson, who would go on to appear with McKinnon in The Spy Who Dumped Me in one of those sort of kismet stories only possible in Hollywood, served as the actress' root (a slang term in the gay and lesbian community for one's early sign of their queerness) has become one of those aforementioned stories that McKinnon has deigned safe to share openly time and time again, likely because it's such a terrific story-and also likely because her Dana Scully Halloween costume as a child is too good to keep hidden. She grew up in a comedy-loving family, with her father, a huge fan of SNL himself, introducing his daughter to the show she would one day become the Emmy-winning face of, awakening her life's "only dream," as she explained in the August issue of Glamour.Īround the same time, at the tender age of 12, McKinnon experienced another awakening of her own, when her "physiological reaction" to Gillian Anderson's Agent Dana Scully on the Fox classic The X-Files clued her into the fact that she was, in fact, gay. She was a true student of the arts, learning to play the piano at at five, the cello at 12, and teaching herself the guitar at 15. The New York native, full name Kathryn McKinnon Berthold, was born in 1984 to a parent educator mother, Laura Campbell, and architect father, Michael Thomas Berthold. That's not to say that we know absolutely nothing about her, however. McKinnon is quoted exactly six times, many of which are simply sentence length, before the author admits to asking their subject, "You don't want to talk about your personal life?" Her response: "She gives a fast, nervous shake of the head." From there, the piece simply ends. Take her cover story in the November 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, for example. (More on those in a bit.) And when a print journalist attempts to crack open the comedienne's core self, well, the resulting tension is palpable on the page. Her pals (and fellow SNL vets) Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers always know to keep the conversation light and centered around her work or one of the few amusing anecdotes about her personal life that she's expressed a willingness to share with the general public. It's just that between those genial visits and the delightful profiles she's received in magazines like GQ and Vanity Fair over the years, she's displayed a true reticence towards exposing her private world to her considerable fan base. Whether SNL is in season or she has a film to promote, as is the case with her latest, the upcoming The Spy Who Dumped Me, McKinnon is a veritable late-night mainstay, turning in very funny appearances on The Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers with regularity. It's not that the funny lady is press shy, per se.
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