ellie kemper personal life

Elizabeth Clairborn May 2, is an American comedic actress and writer best known for her role as Erin Hannon in NBC's The Office.
Contents
* 1 Personal life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 The Office
* 3 Filmography
* 4 References
* 5 External links
Personal life
Elizabeth Claire Kemper was born on in Kansas City, Missouri,the second of four children born to David and Dotty Kemper. She is the granddaughter of Mildred Lane Kemper, the namesake of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, for which the family donated $5 million. Ellie Kemper's father was chairman and chief executive officer for Commerce Bancshares, a bank holding company founded by the Kemper family. Ellie is one-fourth of Italian descent. The family moved to St. Louis when Ellie was five years old. She attended the Conway School in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue and then high school at John Burroughs School, where she developed an interest in theater and improvisational comedy. One of her teachers was Jon Hamm, star of the AMC drama series Mad Men, with whom she appeared in a school playCareer
Ellie Kemper graduated from John Burroughs School in 1998 and attended Princeton University,where she continued her interest in improvisational comedy. She participated in Quipfire!, a renowned improv comedy group, and the Princeton Triangle Club, a touring musical comedy theater troupe. She also played field hockey at Princeton, although she claims she sat on the bench "roughly 97 percenof the time. Her field hockey team went to the national championship in her freshman year, but she quit the team in later years to focus on theater.Kemper graduated from Princeton in 2002 with a degree in English, then studied English for a year at the University of OxfordShe has appeared on comedy sketches on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Important Things with Demetri Marti and an episode of E! Television's The Gastineau Girls which has been described as her "breakout role". She has appeared on Fuse TV's The P.A. In October 2008, Kemper appeared on The Colbert Report in a PSA for Teen Voter AbstinenceShe also appeared on 3 episodes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2007–2008.
Kemper has written several sketch comedy showsmany of them with her comedy partner Scott Eckert,a fellow Princeton gr
Kemper is a contributing writer for the national satirical newspaper The Oni and for McSweeney's, the literary journal founded by Dave Egger Her essays for McSweeney's included "Listen, Kid, The Biggest Thing You've Got Going For You Is Your R"Following My Creative Writing Teacher's Advice To Write 'Like My Parents Are Dead'" and "Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids" She is also a contribor to The Huffington Post the liberal American news website founded by Arianna Huffington. Pieces include "I'm Not Exactly Afraid of Really Intense Fashio
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