Jennifer Irwin is a Canadian
actress
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best known for her roles as Dolly Durkins on
iZombie and as Laurie Neustadt in the comedy ''
Superstore''.
Irwin is a graduate of
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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. She worked with
The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre o ...
in the mid-1990s, and starred in the
HBO series ''
Eastbound & Down
''Eastbound & Down'' is an American sports comedy television series that was broadcast on HBO, and created by Ben Best, Jody Hill, and Danny McBride. It stars McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who, after a career d ...
''. She played Carol in
Kerri Kenney-Silver
Kerri Kenney-Silver (born January 20, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and musician. She is best known for starring as Trudy Wiegel on the mockumentary series ''Reno 911!'' and previously for her sketch comedy work on MTV' ...
's ''Dame Delilah'' web series.
At the 6th Annual
Canadian Comedy Awards (2005) she was nominated for Pretty Funny Female. She was nominated for a
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United State ...
for her performance ''
Slings and Arrows''. In 2010, the Canadian Comedy Awards nominated her for Best Performance by a Female in TV for ''Less Than Kind''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian sketch comedians
Canadian television actresses
Comedians from Toronto
McGill University alumni
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Canadian women comedians
21st-century Canadian comedians
Year of birth missing (living people)