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Kate McKinnon

American actress and comedian (born 1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Kate McKinnon Berthold is an American comedian, actress and author. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022, where she became known for her character work and celebrity impressions. For her work on the series, she was nominated for ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including one for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and nine for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2016 and 2017.

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“Kate McKinnon” enters the record as american actress and comedian (born 1984). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kate, McKinnon and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2022, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kate, McKinnon and American.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2022, 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kate McKinnon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.