Kathy Najimy

Kathy Najimy is an American actress, comedian and voice actor born to Samia and Fred Najimy. She did her education in Crawford High School and then began her career in acting during the 1990s. At the start, it was obvious that she landed only minor roles and in 1992, she got into a major role in comedy series Sister Act for which she won American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress. She reappeared for the same in 1993 for Sister Act 2.

She also lent her voice to several characters such as Cats Don't Dance, The Jungle Book Click to look into! >> Read More... , ‘Tinkerbell’, Brother Bear 2, ‘ Hercules Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, Smart Animals, ‘ Oswald Oswald is an American kids animated television ser >> Read More... ’, American Dad and many more. One of her famous voice-overs includes Pixar’s ‘WALL-E’. She starred in various theater plays such as Dirty Blonde, The Kathy & Mo show (she also wrote the script) which won an Obie Award.

She also directed the play Back to Bacharach and David. Her TV series include a list of several popular series like Desperate Housewives, ‘Five’, Mr. Sunshine, Ugly Betty Ugly Betty was an English comedy-drama series, tha >> Read More... , ‘Socio’, Men At Work, ‘Numb3rs’, Veronica’s Closet (that won her American Comedy Award). She also took part in the musical In Search of Dr. Seuss that won her the Emmy Award. She married Dan Finnerty, comedy actor and singer in 1995 and they have a daughter Samia, a singer/songwriter.

Apart from acting, being an entrepreneur, she successfully created, designed and sold garments for women under the label Charming Sleeves. For her 18 years of AIDS activism, she was honored with L.A Shanti’s Founder Award and also LA Gay and Lesbian Center’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Apart from being a feminist, this makes easy for us to jump into conclusion about her activist movements as well that also includes animal rights, women’s and girl’s rights. Some of the organizations she had contributed are NYClass, APLA, GLAAD, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, AMFAR. Her current involvement is the movement she is supporting that aims in abolishing the New York City carriage horses.