Amelie Gillette is an American newspaper columnist and television writer. She wrote the weekly infographic "The Tolerability Index" for ''

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'' for 10 years and was a writer for the US version of ''

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''. She has written for many publications, including ''

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'', '' The Believer'', and ''

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''.

Early life

Gillette is from

New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

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. She attended

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

, where she wrote for ''

Washington Square News ''Washington Square News (WSN)'' is the weekly student newspaper of New York University (NYU). It has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 55,000 online readers. It is published in print on Monday, in addition to online publication Tuesday th ...

''. After graduation, she worked as a freelance writer and taught English in Italy.

''The A.V. Club'' (2006–2016)

Gillette began writing for ''The Onion''s entertainment newspaper ''

'' in 2006. She wrote "The Hater" column and "The Tolerability Index" infographic, and was the featured performer of The Hater podcast. The last Hater column was published in 2010, but she continued to write "The Tolerability Index" until 2016. She has also written headlines for ''The Onion''.

Television writing (2010–present)

Gillette joined the writing staff of ''The Office'' beginning in its seventh season. She had met ''Office'' cast member

Ellie Kemper Elizabeth Claire Kemper (born May 2, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles of Erin Hannon in the sitcom ''The Office'' (2009–2013) and Kimmy Schmidt in the sitcom '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' (2015–2019). She has also app ...

a few times prior to joining ''The Office'' writing staff, since Kemper was a writer for ''The Onion'' and ''

McSweeney's McSweeney's Publishing is an American nonprofit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco. The executive director is Amanda Uhle. McSweeney's first publication was the literary journal'' Timothy McSw ...

''. She joined the staff of the

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sitcom ''

Animal Practice ''Animal Practice'' is an American sitcom television series which aired on NBC from August 12 to November 28, 2012, on the network's Thanksgiving 2012 television schedule. The series premiered after the end of the 2012 Olympic games (which the n ...

'' in 2012; however, the show was cancelled before her credited episode, "Wingmen," aired. The episode later appeared in a Spring 2013 "burn off."

Personal life

Gillette is married to actor Mark Proksch. She also loves cats.

''The Office'' episodes

* " Todd Packer" * " Special Project"

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillette, Amelie American columnists American expatriates in Italy American television writers Living people The Onion people American women television writers Writers from New Orleans Year of birth missing (living people) American women columnists Screenwriters from Louisiana 21st-century American women