Age: 55
female
Melissa Ann McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McCarthy was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016, and she has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. McCarthy began appearing on television and in film in the late 1990s. She first gained recognition for her role as Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007). She played Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009) before starring as Molly Flynn on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly (2010–2016), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011. McCarthy's appearances as a host on Saturday Night Live (2011–2017) led to a win for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017. McCarthy gained critical acclaim for her performance in the comedy film Bridesmaids (2011), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in several commercially successful comedies, including Identity Thief (2013), The Heat(2013), Tammy (2014), St. Vincent (2014), Spy (2015), and The Boss (2016). In 2018, McCarthy received critical acclaim for portraying writer Lee Israel in the biographical film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has since starred in the drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) and played Ursula in the musical fantasy film The Little Mermaid (2023). McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, are the founders of the production company On the Day Productions, under which they have collaborated on several comedy films, including Life of the Party (2018), Super Intelligence (2020), and Thunder Force (2021). In 2015, she launched her clothing line for plus-sized women named Melissa McCarthy Seven7. She received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia Melissa McCarthy, article licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Melissa McCarthy
Susan Gendelman
for Susan Gendelman in Jesse Optimist
Suggested by captainoptimist_123
Jesse Gendelman lives a great life of his own playground in downtown Los Angelas. He has a wonderful job, a group of best friends, and a great apartment. Until one day, he took a tour on the bus at Sony Studios however, he got accidentally lost. Jesse went on a film set and practices acting. A struggling director named Quentin Blaze discovers his talent and his ambition is to hire the perfect actor who can rise to stardom. He hires Jesse for an acting career. Jesse begins his first job at Sony Studios. When he walks in the building, he meets his new friends, Leon Jarvis the energetic action man, Rachel Edwards, a serious screenwriter who needs for a better salary, Evan Lang, the nerdy master of animation and special effects, Janet Carver, the gorgeous assistant producer and Rachel’s best friend, and Lonnie, the clumsy security guard who tries to man up in order to get his job right. Jesse learns that an actor has a special purpose to illuminate the heart to radiate the talent he has.
