How Old Is Kate McKinnon? Kate McKinnon Birthday
Kate McKinnon was born on January 6, 1984 and is 40 years old now.
Birthday: January 6, 1984
How Old - Age: 40
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Kate McKinnon - Biography
Kate McKinnon was born on January 6, 1984 in Sea Cliff, New York, USA as Kathryn McKinnon Berthold. She is an actress, known for Ghostbusters (2016), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Rough Night (2017).
Kathryn McKinnon Berthold was born and raised in the Long Island town of Sea Cliff, New York. She is the daughter of Laura Campbell, a parent educator, and Michael Thomas Berthold, an architect. She has a younger sister, Emily. Her father died when she was 18 years old.
As a child, McKinnon played several instruments. She started playing the piano when she was 5 years old, the cello when she was 12, and taught herself how to play the guitar when she was 15. She graduated from North Shore High School in 2002, and from Columbia University in 2006 with a theater major, where she co-founded a comedy group, Tea Party, which focused on musical improv comedy. At Columbia, she starred in three Varsity shows: V109 "Dial D for Deadline", V110 "Off-Broadway" and V111 "The Sound of Muses". She was also a member of Prangstgrüp, a student comedy group who set up and recorded elaborate college pranks.
McKinnon is SNL's first openly lesbian cast member, as well as the series' third known LGBT cast member after Terry Sweeney and Danitra Vance. She has a pet cat, Nino Positano, whom she jokingly refers to as her son. She does not use social media, citing fear that she will "misrepresent her true feelings". McKinnon's knack for accents began when she was in 5th grade. She auditioned to be “the queen of reading week” and used a British accent. In an interview with Rolling Stone, she says, “I think the genesis of my entire life, probably, was the smiles I elicited doing this British accent. I've been chasing that dragon ever since." In addition to theater, McKinnon is interested in science. She says to The New York Times, "I’ve been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics."
