Name	Ellie Kemper
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	2-May-1980
Place of Birth	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Ellie Kemper is an American actress, comedian and writer best known for her role as Erin Hannon in NBC's The Office, in addition to her supporting roles in the films Bridesmaids and 21 Jump Street. Kemper attended Princeton University, where she continued her interest in improvisational comedy. Kemper participated in Quipfire!, an improv comedy group, and the Princeton Triangle Club, a touring musical comedy theater troupe. She also played field hockey at Princeton in the 1999 season and claimed she sat on the bench "roughly 97 percent" of the time. Her field hockey team went to the national championship in her freshman year, but she quit the team in later years to focus on theater.

Kemper graduated from Princeton in 2002 with a degree in English, then studied English for a year at the University of Oxford. She regularly appeared in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the late 2000s, and has made guest appearances on Important Things with Demetri Martin, and E! Television's The Gastineau Girls, which has been described as her "breakout role". She has appeared on Fuse TV's The P.A. In October 2008, Kemper appeared on The Colbert Report in a PSA for Teen Voter Abstinence. Kemper is a contributing writer for the national satirical newspaper The Onion and for McSweeney's, the literary journal founded by Dave Eggers. Her essays for McSweeney's included "Listen, Kid, The Biggest Thing You've Got Going For You Is Your Rack", "Following My Creative Writing Teacher's Advice To Write 'Like My Parents Are Dead'", and "Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids". She is also a contributor to The Huffington Post. Pieces include "I'm Not Exactly Afraid of Really Intense Fashion".