Mark McKinney
Mark McKinney | |
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Memorial University | |
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Years active | 1985–present |
Spouse | Marina Gharabegian (divorced 2017) |
Children | 2 |
Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is perhaps best known as Glenn from Superstore or as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, which includes starring in the 1989 to 1995 TV series The Kids in the Hall and 1996 feature film Brain Candy. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1997; and from 2003 to 2006, he co-created, wrote and starred in the series Slings & Arrows. He also appeared as Tom in FXX's Man Seeking Woman. From 2015 to 2021, he appeared as store manager Glenn Sturgis on NBC's Superstore.[1]
Early life
McKinney was born on June 26, 1959, in Ottawa, Ontario, to Chloe, an architectural writer, and Russell McKinney, a diplomat.[2][3] Because of his father's career, he did a lot of travelling when he was young. Some of the places he lived while growing up were Trinidad, Paris, Mexico, and Washington, D.C. He also attended Trinity College School, a boarding school in Port Hope, Ontario. For a short while, McKinney was a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he was a political science major.
Career
He started performing comedy with the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary, Alberta. There, McKinney met
The troupe appeared in their own TV series,
After The Kids in the Hall, McKinney joined the cast of another Lorne Michaels sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live, in the middle of the 1994–1995 season (season 20) as a repertory player. McKinney survived the cast overhaul that occurred at the end of season 20 and stayed on SNL until the end of the 1996–1997 (season 22). During his time on SNL, McKinney had six recurring characters (some of note include Ian Daglers from "Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly", Melanie, a Catholic schoolgirl, and Lucien Callow, a fop often paired with David Koechner's fop character Fagan) and twenty-seven celebrity impersonations (some of note include Mel Gibson, Barney Frank, Al Gore, Paul Shaffer, Mark Russell, Jim Carrey, Lance Ito, Tim Robbins, Steve Forbes, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Gates, and Ellen DeGeneres).[4]
He has appeared in several films, including the SNL spinoffs Superstar, The Ladies Man and A Night at the Roxbury. McKinney also starred opposite Isabella Rossellini in Guy Maddin's tragicomedy The Saddest Music in the World.[5] He also appeared in the Spice Girls' movie Spice World. In 1999 he appeared in the Canadian television film adaptation Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang.
McKinney cowrote and starred in the Kids in the Hall movie Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, in which, among other roles, he spoofed SNL and KITH executive producer Lorne Michaels.
Theatre
His theatre appearances include The Ugly Man with One Yellow Rabbit at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and
Later appearances
He also appeared in the first season of Robson Arms, as well as on the Canadian comedy Corner Gas.
From 2003 to 2006, he co-created, co-wrote and starred in the TV series
In 2006–07 he both worked as a story editor on and a recurring role in
He directed the short film Not Pretty, Really for the 2006 anthology Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction.
As well, he directed and appeared on the
In the summer of 2007, he became the show-runner and executive producer of Less Than Kind, a half hour comedy starring Maury Chaykin.
McKinney was in an episode of the Canadian children's TV show Dino Dan called "Prehistoric Zoo/Ready? Set? Dino!" He plays Dino Dan's track coach in the second part, "Ready? Set? Dino!", of this two-part episode released 4 October 2010 (Canada).[10]
He co-wrote and starred in the Kids in the Hall 2010 reunion project
In 2011, he was an executive producer of
In 2013, he co-starred in Rocket Monkeys as the main antagonist, Lord Peel. In 2014, he appeared in the CBC television series The Best Laid Plans.[13] Beginning in 2015, he was a co-star on the NBC sitcom Superstore which was cancelled in 2021.
In 2020, he appeared as a guest on the Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip marathon fundraiser episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.
In 2022 he joined the other Kids in the Hall for an eight episode
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | The Passion of John Ruskin | John Ruskin | Short film |
1996 | Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy | Don Roritor / Simon / Cabbie / Gunther / Cop #1 / Nina Bedford / Melanie / Drill sergeant / Sharisse (White-trash woman) | Also writer |
1997 | The Wrong Guy | Cameo | Uncredited |
1997 | Hayseed | Alien Doctor | |
1997 | Spice World | Graydon | |
1998 | Fidelio | Mark | Short film |
1998 | The Last Days of Disco | Rex | |
1998 | The Herd | Unknown | |
1998 | Dog Park | Dr. Cavan, Dog Psychologist | |
1998 | A Night at the Roxbury | Father Williams | |
1999 | The Out-of-Towners | Greg | |
1999 | New Waterford Girl | Doctor Hogan | |
1999 | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Mr. Fish | |
1999 | Superstar | Father Ritley | |
2000 | The Ladies Man | Mr. White | |
2000 | This Might Be Good | Unknown | Short film |
2002 | Toothpaste | Husband | Short film |
2003 | The Saddest Music in the World | Chester Kent | Also additional camera operator |
2003 | Falling Angels | Reg and Ron | |
2006 | Snow Cake | Neighbour | Uncredited |
2006 | Not Pretty, Really | Interviewer | Short film; also director |
2006 | Unaccompanied Minors | Guard in the Hall #3 | |
2008 | Carfuckers | Payette | Short film; also writer |
2009 | High Life | Jeremy | |
2017 | Room for Rent | Warren Baldwin | |
2018 | Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss | Cultist | |
2018 | Doozy | Clovis (voice) |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1985–1990 | Saturday Night Live | Various voices | 21 episodes; uncredited |
1987 | Seeing Things | Unknown | Episode: "Another Point of View" |
1987–1990 | Street Legal | Stanley / Officer Robert Kaufman | 2 episodes |
1988 | Dynaman | Dynablue (voice) | Unknown episodes |
1988–1995; 2022 | The Kids in the Hall | Various | 109 episodes; also writer and director |
1995–1997 | Saturday Night Live | Various | 48 episodes |
2000 | Twitch City | Rex Reilly | 3 episodes |
2000 | Strangers with Candy | Lee | Episode: "The Last Temptation of Blank" |
2000 | The Industry | Dean Sutherland | Episode: "Wrongly Convicted" |
2001 | Clerks | Freak #2 (voice) | Episode: "The Last Episode Ever" |
2001 | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Guy | Episode: "My Mother, My Dick" |
2001 | Mentors | Mack Sennett | Episode: "Silent Movie" |
2001 | Dice | Sam Cutter | 6 episodes |
2001 | Criminal Mastermind | Unknown | TV movie |
2003 | Wanda at Large | Mark | 2 episodes |
2003 | Lilo & Stitch: The Series | Bertley Pleakley (voice) | Episode: "Fibber: Experiment 032" |
2003 | The Toronto Show | Various | Episode #1.1 |
2003–2006 | Slings & Arrows | Richard Smith-Jones | 18 episodes; also creator and writer |
2004 | Puppets Who Kill | Quiz Show Host | Episode: "Rocko Gets a Lung" |
2005 | Corner Gas | Bill | Episode: "An American in Saskatchewan" |
2005 | Kevin Hill | Professor Xavier Ambrose | Episode: "Losing Isn't Everything" |
2005 | Robson Arms | Tom Goldblum | 3 episodes |
2005 | Burnt Toast | Trevor | TV movie |
2005 | Rick Mercer Report | Driver in Responsible Drinking Commercial | Episode #3.3 |
2005–2006 | Hatching, Matching and Dispatching | Todd | 6 episodes |
2006 | Heyday! | Bob Hope | TV movie |
2006–2007 | Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | Andy Mackinaw | 10 episodes; also writer |
2010 | The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town | Various | 8 episodes; also writer |
2010 | Less Than Kind | Gunman / The Bear | 2 episodes; also writer, executive producer, and director |
2010 | Dino Dan | Mr. Drumheller | 2 episodes |
2013 | Rocket Monkeys | Lord Peel (voice) | 3 episodes |
2013 | Mother Up! | Leland | Episode: "Shoe I Am" |
2014 | The Best Laid Plans | George Quimby | 6 episodes |
2013–2014 | This Hour Has 22 Minutes | Various | 2 episodes; also writer |
2014 | Spun Out | Alastair | Episode: "Middle Aged Men in the Hall" |
2014 | Space Riders: Division Earth | Chair | 3 episodes |
2014 | Odd Squad
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General Pentagon | Episode: "Crime at Shapely Manor" |
2015–2017 | Man Seeking Woman | Tom | 18 episodes |
2015–2021 | Superstore | Glenn Sturgis | Main cast, 113 episodes; also Director of “Love Birds” |
2019 | Where's Waldo
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(voice) | Episode: "A Wanderer Christmas" |
2020 | The George Lucas Talk Show | Himself | Episode: "Stu-D2 1138 on the Binary Sunset Sith" |
2021–2023 | The Great North | Morris / Jobiathan (voice) | 2 episodes |
2021 | Corner Gas Animated | Frank Shoddy (voice) | Episode: "Parachute the Messenger" |
2023 | Son of a Critch | Hudaro | Episode: "Who Dares Dare Hudaro?" |
Jane | Mr. Harrison | Episode "Apis mellifera" |
References
- ^ "Mark McKinney on finding his Superstore voice and bringing back Slings and Arrows". The A.V. Club. 21 September 2016.
- ^ "Mark McKinney". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- ^ "Mark McKinney Biography (1959-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- ^ "SNL Archives | Cast". Snl.jt.org. 1995-01-14. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- ^ "The Saddest Music in the World". amazon.com. Amazon. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ Barratt, Amy (2002-07-11). "Kid makes good". Montreal Mirror. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ "Cast joining Helen Hunt in Old Vic's Eureka Day announced | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
- ^ Kois, Dan (2006-10-23). "Can Studio 60 Be Saved?". Slate.com. Retrieved 2006-10-24.
- ^ "Camelot & cover songs: Inside CBC's new fall lineup" Archived 2013-01-29 at archive.today. National Post, June 8, 2011.
- ^ "Dino Dan Episode Guide 2010 Season 1 - 'Twas a Dinosaur, Episode 17". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- Xtra!, December 28, 2009.
- ^ "Comedy Network Orders Picnicface TV Series". The Hollywood Reporter. 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- ^ Bill Brioux, "‘Best Laid Plans’ turns satiric focus on politics". Toronto Star, January 4, 2014.
External links
- Mark McKinney at IMDb
- Mark McKinney on Twitter