Kelly McCormack (born January 13, 1991) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, musician and producer. As an actor she is best known for the Amazon series A League of Their Own, the Syfy science fiction television series Killjoys, and for her role as Betty Anne on the Crave series Letterkenny, and as a filmmaker for the feature film Sugar Daddy (2020). Kelly has worked in film, television, and on stage, and runs the production company Floyder Films.[1]
McCormack was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia.[5] She began performing on-stage at the age of seven, training in classical music, opera, and musical theatre. As a teenager, she studied at the Lyric School of Acting, Vancouver, before attending university first in England at Herstmonceux International Study Centre, where she studied literature, and later at the University of British Columbia, where she received a bachelor's degree in literature. Kelly then moved to New York to study musical theatre.[5]
Career
After graduating from university, McCormack moved to New York City to study acting, musical theatre and experimental theatre and performed with The Flea Theatre Company as a member of The Bat Company, performing in Tony Award nominated Liz Swados' Kaspar Hauser. She later moved to Toronto and started working in the Toronto indie theatre scene with playwright Kat Sandler, originating roles in plays like Delicacy, and working in the entertainment industry.
In 2013, she wrote her first feature film, Play the Film, in which she also starred.[7] The film was produced for only $1,000.[7] McCormack won several awards for writing the film,[2][8] including Best Screenplay at the Broad Humor Film Festival.[9] The following year, she wrote another feature film, Barn Wedding, which screened at film festivals throughout 2015.[10][11]
In 2017, McCormack served as a producer and actress on several productions. In February of that year, she joined the cast of the Syfy science fiction television series Killjoys in its third season.[12] On the series, she portrayed Zeph, an androgynous scientist, in a recurring role until the series ended.[4][13]
In November 2017, she joined the cast for the third season of the CraveTV series Letterkenny.[15] In early 2018, she appeared in an episode of the CBC comedy series Crawford.[16] Later that year, she was featured in an episode of The Expanse.[17]
On stage, McCormack has developed and performed in Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play With Music, an original opera based on the life of German painter Charlotte Salomon,[5] which ran at the 2017 Luminato Festival in Toronto and at the World Stage Design Festival in Taipei.[5]