Melissa McCarthy

Known for ActingBorn 1970-08-26 (age 56)Plainfield, Illinois, USA

Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McCarthy was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016, and she has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. McCarthy began appearing on television and in film in the late 1990s. She first gained recognition for her role as Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). She played Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009) before starring as Molly Flynn on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly (2010–2016), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011. McCarthy's appearances as a host on Saturday Night Live (2011–2017) led to a win for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017. McCarthy gained critical acclaim for her performance in the comedy film Bridesmaids (2011), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in several commercially successful comedies, including Identity Thief (2013), The Heat(2013), Tammy (2014), St. Vincent (2014), Spy (2015), and The Boss (2016). In 2018, McCarthy received critical acclaim for portraying writer Lee Israel in the biographical film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has since starred in the drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and played Ursula in the musical fantasy film The Little Mermaid (2023). McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, are the founders of the production company On the Day Productions, under which they have collaborated on several comedy films, including Life of the Party (2018), Super Intelligence (2020), and Thunder Force (2021). In 2015, she launched her clothing line for plus-sized women named Melissa McCarthy Seven7. She received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia Melissa McCarthy, article licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Kids' Choice Awards

Only Murders in the Building

The Box

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Chicken Party

D.C.

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

People's Choice Awards

The Simpsons

Gilmore Girls

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Little Big Shots

The Penguins of Madagascar

Private Practice

RuPaul's Drag Race

Kim Possible

The Life of David Gale

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

Love, Gilda

The Graham Norton Show

St. Vincent

Conan

Hot Ones

A Night at the Academy Museum

Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around

The Starling

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder

Nine Perfect Strangers

White Oleander

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Life As We Know It

Spy

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

Go

Celebrity IOU

Sesame Street

Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed

The Kid

Mike & Molly

Genie

The Heat

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

Bridesmaids

God

Central Intelligence

Samantha Who?

Thor: Love and Thunder