Everything about Nicole Sullivan totally explained
Nicole Julianne Sullivan (born
April 21,
1970) is an
American actress,
voice actress, and
comedienne.
Sullivan is best known for her six seasons on the
sketch comedy series
MADtv and four seasons on the
CBS sitcom The King of Queens. She also played a recurring character on
Scrubs. She voices
Shego in the
Kim Possible television series, and
Louise—the owner of the cat
Buckley—on the
ABC Family series
Slacker Cats. She also has recurring voice roles on
Family Guy.
Personal life
Sullivan was born in
Manhattan, the daughter of Madonna, an antiques dealer, and
Edward C. Sullivan, a New York State assemblyman of German origins. She is of
Irish,
Swedish,
Norwegian and
German ancestry. She took dance classes at the age of seven, and performed in
Off Broadway and
Broadway productions with the First All-Children’s Theatre. Sullivan's mother, an antiques dealer, and her father, a politician 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. While at middle school, she did well enough academically to skip a grade, and later at high school was treasurer during her junior year and class president during her senior year. She played soccer in high school, recorded statistics for the boys’ basketball team and was a member of student council.
After graduating as
Middleburgh High School
's class valedictorian in 1987, 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 to write for and perform in comedy clubs and theatres with
improv and sketch comedy troupes before getting sporadic guest-starring roles.
Sullivan is married to actor
Jason Packham. On
May 12,
2007, Sullivan gave birth to a son, Dashel Pierce Packham, via
caesarean section.
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"), fictional country singer
Darlene McBride, insulting audience member Judith, 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 episode "Contact".
Sullivan's impersonations included
Britney Spears,
Drew Barrymore,
Justin Timberlake,
Hillary Clinton,
Meg Ryan,
Celine Dion,
Melanie Griffith,
John Travolta,
Maury Povich and
Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Television Appearances
Sullivan has made appearances in the following shows:
- Baby Blues
- Boston Legal
- Clone High
- Crank Yankers
-
- Diagnosis Murder
- Family Guy
- Fired Up
- Herman's Head
-
- Later (as guest and host)
- Less Than Perfect
- Meet the Robinsons
- Miss Match
- Models Inc.
- Monk
- Party of Five
- Pepper Ann
- Suddenly Susan
- Titus
- Thank God You're Here (US TV series)
- Scrubs
- Kim Possible
- King of Queens
- The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody (upcoming episode)
Filmography
| Year |
Title |
Role |
Other notes |
| 1997 |
Fairfax Fandango |
|
|
| 2002 |
Bar Hopping |
Mara |
|
| 2002 |
The Third Wheel |
Sally |
|
| 2005 |
Guess Who |
Liz Klein |
|
| 2005 |
Barry Dingle |
Ethel Shivers |
|
| 2005 |
The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend |
Pregnant Make-Out Girl |
|
| 2006 |
One Sung Hero |
Nancy Nosenchuck |
|
| 2007 |
Meet the Robinsons |
Franny Robinson |
|
| 2008 |
Superhero Movie |
Rick Riker's Mother |
|
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 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, however, she was replaced by Katey Sagal by the time the show aired.
Currently, she voices the character of Louise on the ABC Family show Slacker Cats. Louise is the owner of Buckley, one of the two protagonists and the only major human character on the show.
Voice credits
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