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Cathryn Rose "Casey" Wilson (born October 24, 1980) is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter, best known for starring as Penny Hartz in the ABC comedy series ''Happy Endings'' and currently stars in Hulu's reality TV parody series ''The Hotwives''. Other notable work includes starring in NBC's short-lived sitcom ''Marry Me'', playing a supporting role as Noelle Hawthorne in the 2014 film adaption of ''Gone Girl'', and her 2013 Sundance film ''Ass Backwards'', which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner June Diane Raphael. In 2015, Wilson and Danielle Schneider started the Earwolf podcast ''Bitch Sesh'', where they discuss the latest episodes of ''The Real Housewives''. Wilson made her first major television appearances with a two-season stint as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2008 to 2009. ==Early life and background== Casey Wilson was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, along with her younger brother, Fletcher, a medical device engineer.〔〔 She graduated from T. C. Williams High School in 1998 and studied theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where she was a recipient of NYU's "Excellence in Acting" award when graduating in 2002.〔 She is of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised Baptist. Wilson's parents worked in politics, she credits her politically opposed parents (her mother was a Democrat, her father a Republican) in shaping her sense of humor, having grown up in a "blue-state/red-state, forever-clashing political household", as she called it in an interview with ''Washington Flyer''.〔()〕 Her father, Paul O. Wilson, is a political strategist and consultant who runs campaigns for Republican party candidates. Her mother, Kathy Wilson (née Higdon), was a women's rights advocate and served as the chairwoman of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) throughout the 1980s.〔 Under Kathy's leadership, the NWPC endorsed Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election. Kathy retired from politics in the late 1980s, switching to a career in early childhood education, she served as the director of childcare and development centers in Alexandria, Virginia since 1991.〔 Kathy died of heart failure at age 54 in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on September 1, 2005. Casey and her family have since continued to run "The Kathy Wilson Foundation", a charitable organization honoring her late mother's work in helping children with special needs. Wilson's passion for performing began at an early age, stating that her first memorable exposure to theater came when her father took her to New York City to see a production of ''Cats'', inspiring her to create her own plays. When she was nine years old, her father built her a homemade stage in the family's backyard, where she put on plays with other children from the neighborhood. From there, she started taking singing and acting lessons as a teenager. She would also become heavily involved in her high school's theater program, starring in (and occasionally directing) many of the school's plays and musicals, including a production of ''The Sound of Music'', where she played the lead role of Maria. While studying acting at the Stella Adler School of Dramatic Arts, Wilson had originally set out to be a dramatic actress, but later started to focus on comedy at the suggestion of an acting teacher. After graduating from NYU in 2002, Wilson and her best friend from college, June Diane Raphael, began studying improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, where they would eventually run their two-woman sketch show for a number of years. Performing the long-running stage show opened doors for them as writers, after performing the show at the "U.S. Comedy Arts Festival" in 2005, they were hired by New Regency Pictures to write the film ''Bride Wars'' and landed a development deal with UPN to create a sitcom pilot. Wilson has cited among her biggest influences as Catherine O'Hara, Diane Keaton, Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, Debra Winger, and Shirley MacLaine.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Casey Wilson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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