We are excited to introduce you to actress Mary E. Kennedy who plays the newest character “NEW FIONA” in SHAMELESS – Season 7 on Showtime.
Kennedy joins the award winning cast/show with her comedic and energetic style that will keep you tuned in. BIO
A Boston native, she has just launched her video blog What a Kennedy Thinks, after being the host of the, “Oh Mary!' Show an edgy, current event talk show vodcast on ohmaryshow.com. The “Oh, Mary!” show was also one of the top rated vodcast's on The Jon Lovitz Comedy Network. “Oh, Mary!” show got it's start as a radio show on the award winning LA Talk Radio for 4 years.
Before that she was featured on The DAMage Report with Johnny Dam (Talkers Magazine's The Frontier Fifty) weekly as their Parental Correspondent. Before that she was heard regularly on the Man Cow radio show in Chicago. A Professional Actress, you can see her as the new recurring character “New Fiona” on Shameless Season 7. She will be seen in the feature, Shattered release date, 2017. She co-stars in the feature film Creative Differences. Was a featured mom commentator on The Mom Rules Webseries and did the pilot, for Nickelodeon's new network, NickMOM called Road Mamas which she also Co-Created. You can also see her comic acting regularly in various sketches for CONAN. She just took off her dancing shoes after appearing as a featured dancer in Allee Willis' BADEYA BABY! with choreographer, Keith Young (RENT). She also was a recurring on NBC’s ER as Officer Trudy Lange for Season 12. Recently she appeared as Queen Elizabeth, on VanityFair.com which accompanied their cover, The Queen and Her Corgis.
You have seen her in national commercials for, FLIR, HULU Plus, FORD, Vonage, Cingular Wireless, Sony Ericcson, Captain Morgan and E-Trade. Promos, for George Lucas' Star Wars and CBS Sports, with sports personality, Jim Rome. She got her start in theatre, in Boston, NY and now in LA. She wrote and starred in, 36 Plots at the El Portal Theatre (LA). Her one woman show Calls from the Purse, has been performed at the Road Theatre Company, the Zephyr Theatre and a part of the Women's Theatre Festival, at Whitefire Theatre and La Macha Theatre all in Los Angeles. She also hosted the new reality show pilot Breaking In for SPIKE and played an Ugly Betty type for VH-1’s pilot American Ugly.
A finalist for the HBO Comedy Arts Festival Talent (ASPEN)search. Her comedy has been seen on, Jlcn.tv, Comedy Central, SPIKE and the USA Network.
In Los Angeles, she is a regular at The Laugh Factory. Headlined, Garret Morris' Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles, Zanies in Chicago and Marblehead Little Theatre, Marblehead, MA. She also featured for the show Gender Blender at the Improv and has toured with Mom’s Night Out!, a comedy show that is performed by Moms for Moms. In addition, she was the Warm-Up Comic for the game show,“Who’s King of the Water Cooler” at the Ontario Improv and has appeared at The Comedy Store.
In New York City she appeared at Caroline's, The Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club and Stand-Up New York . She features and headlines for Rascals Comedy Club, Bonkerz Comedy Club in Orlando, FL, Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale, CA and for corporate events around the country. Her credits also include, Casino Pauma, San Diego, CA, Edgewater Casino, Laughlin, NV Comedy Studio and Nick's Comedy Stop in Boston, MA, Rascals Comedy Club in Phoenix, AZ, Zanies in Chicago, IL, The Comedy Connection in Portland, ME, Potowami Casino in Milwaukee, WI, Three Rivers Casino, in Florence, OR, San Manuel Casino, Highland, CA and The Punchline in San Francisco, CA and just recently, The Comedy Palace, San Diego, CA. She has also featured for headliners, Taylor Negron, David Allen Grier, Joy Behar, Margaret Cho and Leslie Jordan.
She has been showcased in the Bud Light Ladies of Laughter Competition, Hampton's Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival and at the California Funniest Female Festival.