Laura Kightlinger
Biography
Laura Kightlinger is an American comedian, actress and writer. She was a featured player on Saturday Night Live from 1994 to 1995, then wrote and served as consulting producer on Will & Grace while occasionally playing Nurse Sheila. She created, wrote, executive produced and starred in the comedy series The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman. Three of her stand-up specials have appeared on HBO, and six have appeared on Comedy Central. Her short Dependable People earned a director's citation at the Black Maria Film Festival and a Best New Director award from the International Festival of Cinema and Technology in 2002. Her documentary Sixty Spins Around the Sun, about New York drug reform, won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at several festivals. On film she appeared in Who's the Caboose?, Daddy Day Care (2003), Kicking & Screaming (2005) and The Truth About Lies (2018). In 1999, she published a book, Quick Shots of False Hope.
57years old
Turns 58 on June 13in 243 days
- Born Jamestown
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 23 years1995 to 2018
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Behind the award
Kightlinger made the short film Dependable People in 2001. It earned her the Black Maria Film Festival Director's Citation, an honorable mention, plus the International Festival of Cinema and Technology Best New Director Award in 2002.
Behind the camera
Quick Shots of False Hope, Kightlinger's book, was published in 1999, and as of 2006 she was working on a film adaptation of it.
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