Nicole Sullivan

Nicole Sullivan
Nicole Sullivan, 2003
Born	Nicole Julianne Sullivan April 21, 1970 (1970-04-21) (age 39) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, Voice actress, Comedienne
Years active	1991–present

Nicole Julianne Sullivan (born April 21, 1970) is an American actress, comedienne and voice artist.

Nicole Sullivan is best known for her six seasons (1995-2001) on the sketch comedy series MADtv and five seasons (2001-2005, 2007) on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens. She has played a recurring character on Scrubs and voices the villainous Shego in Disney's Kim Possible, Drew from Cartoon Network's The Secret Saturdays, and Louise on the ABC Family series Slacker Cats. She also had recurring voice roles on Family Guy and voiced "Franny Robinson" in Disney's Meet the Robinsons. In October 2008, Sullivan currently stars in the Lifetime TV show Rita Rocks. She currently voices the character of Marlene in Nickelodeon's series, The Penguins of Madagascar.

Early life

Sullivan was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Edward C. Sullivan, a New York State assemblyman.^[1] She took dance classes at age 7 and performed in Off Broadway and Broadway productions with the First All-Children’s Theatre. Sullivan's mother, a business woman, and her father, who represented Manhattan's 69th Assembly District in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2002, moved the family upstate to Middleburgh, New York in 1982. During high school Nicole was class treasurer throughout her junior year. She played soccer in high school, recorded statistics for the boys’ basketball team and was a member of student council. She has most recently become the latest in a long line of celebrities to endorse the Jenny Craig weight loss system after losing 35 pounds while on the program as of October 2009.

After graduating from Middleburgh in 1987,^[2] she attended Northwestern University as a theatre major. She studied William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Anton Chekov, Henrik Ibsen and Greek tragedies, while working two jobs to pay her way through college and writing plays and sketches for the student theatre. Sullivan spent her junior year in London, studying at the British American Drama Academy and became a member of the Greenwich Shakespeare Company. Sullivan graduated Northwestern with honors, then moved to Los Angeles before getting sporadic guest-starring roles.

Career

MADtv

Sullivan was among the original cast members on MADtv when it premiered in 1995. She created numerous characters; her most popular was the mean-spirited Vancome Lady. Sullivan's other characters included X-News reporter Amy, dimwitted Antonia, Eracists leader Debbie, News at 6's Diane Lawyer-Trabajo (pronounced "trebalyo"), racist country singer Darlene McBride, and Latina bimbo Lida. Sullivan appeared with Michael McDonald in a MADtv sketch about making an audition tape to appear on Law & Order that mocked their acting prowess; she later guest-starred in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Contact".

Sullivan's impersonations included Britney Spears, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Hillary Clinton, Mary-Kate Olsen, Jennifer Aniston, Nancy Reagan, Meg Ryan, Celine Dion, Melanie Griffith, Kathie Lee Gifford, Uma Thurman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kim Cattrall, Beth Broderick,^[3] Anne Robinson, Helen Hunt, Edie Falco (as Carmela Soprano from The Sopranos), Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton, and Lucille Ball (as Lucy Ricardo in a trio of I Love Lucy parodies), and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

She left the show in 2001.

Television appearances

Sullivan has made appearances in the following shows:

• According to Jim
• American Dad!
• Baby Blues
• Boston Legal
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
• Clone High
• Crank Yankers
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Diagnosis Murder
• Family Guy
• Fired Up
• Herman's Head
• Hot Properties
• It's Me or the Dog
• Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• Kim Possible
• King of Queens
• Later (as guest and host)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Less Than Perfect
• Leverage
• Miss Match
• Models Inc.
• Monk
• Party of Five
• Pepper Ann
• Reba
• Rita Rocks (show's star)
• Scrubs
• Suddenly Susan
• Thank God You're Here
• The Secret Saturdays (Voicing Drew Saturday)
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• The Penguins of Madagascar (Voicing Marlene)
• Titus

Filmography

Voice acting projects

Sullivan has voiced Shego on Kim Possible; Joan of Arc on Clone High; Mira Nova on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; and Joan on the Family Guy episode, "I Take Thee Quagmire," along with several other one time voices on the show. Sullivan has also starred in a pilot called, Me and My Needs, that was rejected by ABC. She plays Franny Robinson in Meet the Robinsons. Also, Sullivan was a voice actor in the Monsters, Inc. video game, but not in the film of the same name, despite what many sources state. She was originally cast in the cartoon series Futurama to play Turanga Leela;^{[citation needed]} however, she was replaced by Katey Sagal by the time the show aired.

Voice credits

Personal life

Sullivan is married to actor Jason Packham. On May 12, 2007, Sullivan gave birth to a son, Dashel Pierce Packham, via caesarean section. The couple had their second son on Aug 31, 2009 and named him Beckett Edward Packham. Sullivan won the first edition of Celebrity Poker Showdown. Her charity was Alley Cat Allies, a national advocacy group for feral and homeless cats, which received $100,000 as a result of her victory.

She appeared on the show It's Me or the Dog along with her 4 dogs to combat their peeing & barking problems.

References

External links

• Nicole Sullivan at the Internet Movie Database