Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn is an American actress. She began her career on television playing Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan. Hahn went on to appear as supporting actress in a number of comedy films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers, Our Idiot Brother, We're the Millersand The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth23 July 1973
CityWestchester, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.
I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.
My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.
Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.
And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.
I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?
'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.
Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity.
I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.
Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.
I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.
There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"
People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.
My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.