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Kathy Najimy is known for her memorable performances in over 30 films including Sister Act, Hocus Pocus, RatRace, WALL-E and more. She is proud to have been named Ms. Magazine WOMAN OF THE YEAR and the NYC Lily Awards Actor/Activist of the year.
Najmy can be seen in the Netflix hit film: Dumplin’ and soon to be released untitled Sia Furler project. Ms. Najimy recurred (for 4 seasons) on HBO’s VEEP, as well as recurring roles on Younger, Graves and The Good Witch. She starred for a season on Unforgettable as the captain of the NYC crimes police force. She is set to star in the feature film El Camino in Fall of 2020 with Esai Morales.
For TV she voiced “Peggy Hill” (14 seasons) on the Emmy Award-winning Fox hit King of the Hill, for which she received several Awards. She currently plays Serena in the new Disney Jr remake hit: The Rocketeer (the rocketeer is now a girl!) As well as several characters on Amy’s Poehlers new Fox aninmated series Duncanville
She also starred as Olive Massery for three seasons on Veronica’s Closet, with Kirstie Alley, was on a seasons of the Big C and Numb3rs, and is renowned as the Evil Witch in Disney's hit: The Descendants.
In the theater, she starred as legendary “Mae West” on Broadway in the hit play Dirty Blonde to critical acclaim and later reprised the role in the West coast premiere at The Old Globe Theater (Outer Critics Circle Best Actress). With Mo Gaffney, Najimy starred in and wrote “The Kathy and Mo Show,” her long-running feminist off Broadway play, garnering an Obie Award and was filmed for two Hit HBO specials: Parallel Lives and Kathy and Mo: The Darkside (Ace and ACA awards for Actor and Executive Producer).
Kathy is currently producing a series for Television based on The Women’s Movement, created the off-Broadway hit Gloria: A Life- about the life of her friend, Gloria Steinem. Najimy Is helming a documentary: Blue Woman Red Town: A journey into America to meet the 53% of white married women who voted for Trump and directed her first original short film: The Secret Club (now appearing in short film fests).
Najimy is internationally known for her portrayal of “Sister Mary Patrick” in the blockbuster hits Sister Act and Sister Act 2, which won her an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress and the Hollywood Women's Press Club - Female Discovery of the Year.
Her resume includes work in over 20 films including starring roles in Hocus Pocus, Rat Race, Tyler Perry’s Madea Christmas and Say Uncle (Philadelphia Film Festival Best Actress), and has appeared in Hope Floats, Nevada, Step Up 3D, Zack and Reba, This Is My Life, The Fisher King, Soapdish, The Hard Way, Bam Bam and Celeste, Two Sisters, It’s Pat, The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez, Jeffrey, The Big K, and HBO’s If These Walls Could Talk 2 with Ellen DeGeneres. The films Blowtorch and Clutter and appeared in The Guilt Trip with Barbra Streisand.
Additional TV projects include: Five, directed by Jennifer Aniston; Desperate Housewives; Drop Dead Diva; Franklin and Bash; Ugly Betty; Socio; Men At Work; Mr. Sunshine; and a recurring role on ABC’s hit show Make It or Break It.
Additionally, Najimy sang and danced as “Elmo’s” stepmother on Fox’s special Cinderelmo, and also sang and danced her way through the opening number of the 1995 Academy Awards with Tim Curry. In 1993, she starred in the Emmy Award-winning TNT musical special In Search of Dr. Seuss.
Najimy was featured in a three-part arc on Chicago Hope and in Disney’s: The Scream Team with Eric Idle and appeared in the television series She TV, Fool for Love, That’s So Raven, and Early Edition, and was featured in three episodes of the hit sitcom Ellen.
Najimy has performed on Broadway and at Madison Square Garden to benefit V Day in The Vagina Monologues. Najimy is currently writing her solo show for the New York City stage, Lift Up Your Skirt.
Kathy Najimy directed the east and west coast premieres of the acclaimed off-Broadway hit Back to Bacharach and David, as well as several other stage projects.
She starred in Pixar’s Oscar winning animated feature WALL-E and has voiced characters for the animated features Tinkerbell, Brother Bear 2, Cats Don’t Dance, and The Jungle Book. For TV: The Sissy Duckling, Oswald, Hey Arnold!, Pepper Ann, Smart Animals, Hercules, American Dad, Little Bill, Tangled and many more.
For her over 40 years of AIDS activism, Najimy has been honored with the GMHC Howard Ashman Lifetime achievement award, the L.A. Shanti’s Founder award as well as the LA Gay and Lesbian Center's Distinguished Achievement award. She is an enthusiastic supporter of LGBTQ, women’s and girls’ rights, AIDS awareness, animal rights, and a woman’s right to choose, and frequently travels around the country to keynote speak on these issues. She is currently helping helm the movement to abolish the New York City carriage horses. Najimy has lent her support to a variety of worthy organizations that include: NYClass, Project Angel Food, APLA, GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign Fund, Broadway Cares, Equity Fights AIDS, The Ms. Foundation, AMFAR, Planned Parenthood, Voters for Choice, and NARAL. As a proud Lebanese American, she has received awards from the ACC and The ADC and been honored with their Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has posed twice for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal (PETA)’s popular campaign “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur,” and, in 2000, she received PETA’s Humanitarian of the Year Award from Sir Paul McCartney. Kathy is currently a member and speaker for Times Up NYC.
Najimy has been published in The New York Times, as well as several national magazines. She contributed a chapter to the book The Choices We Made, which was released on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. She contributed a monologue to “Standing on Ceremony – The Gay Marriage Plays.” On tape, she voiced Wally Lamb's best-selling novel She’s Come Undone.
She is tournament champion of Bravo Celebrity Poker Showdown, winning $100,000 for V-DAY (ending violence against women) and also won another $100,000 for at-risk teen girls as the first champion of the CBS Game Show Marathon.
Kathy lives in NYC with her husband of 25 years Dan Finnerty (The Dan Band) and their 23-year-old daughter singer/songwriter/actor Samia.
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