1. Mark Douglas Brown McKinney was born on June 26,1959 and is a Canadian actor and comedian.
16 Facts About Mark McKinney
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Mark McKinney is best known as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall, which includes starring in the 1989 to 1995 TV series The Kids in the Hall and 1996 feature film Brain Candy.
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Mark McKinney appeared as Tom in FXX's Man Seeking Woman.
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Mark McKinney started performing comedy with the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary, Alberta.
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Notable characters on the show played by Mark McKinney include the Chicken Lady, Darill, bluesman Mississippi Gary, and Mr Tyzik the Headcrusher, an embittered Eastern European who pretended to crush the heads of passers-by between his thumb and forefinger.
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Mark McKinney has appeared in several films, including the SNL spinoffs Superstar, The Ladies Man and A Night at the Roxbury.
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Mark McKinney starred opposite Isabella Rossellini in Guy Maddin's tragicomedy The Saddest Music in the World.
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Mark McKinney appeared in the Spice Girls' movie Spice World.
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Mark McKinney cowrote and starred in the Kids in the Hall movie Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, in which, among other roles, he spoofed SNL and KITH executive producer Lorne Michaels.
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Mark McKinney was in the cast of The Roundabout theatre production of Flea in her Ear and David Lindsay Abaire's Fuddy Meers for the Manhattan theatre club.
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Mark McKinney appeared in the first season of Robson Arms, as well as on the Canadian comedy Corner Gas.
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Mark McKinney appeared as a cast member on the CBC comedy Hatching, Matching, and Dispatching and its 2017 follow up A Christmas Fury.
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Mark McKinney directed the short film Not Pretty, Really for the 2006 anthology Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction.
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Mark McKinney wrote one episode of Watts' sitcom Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, which aired on CBC Television in fall 2011.
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Mark McKinney co-wrote and starred in the Kids in the Hall 2010 reunion project Death Comes to Town.
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In 2024 he hosted the documentary series Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby for CTV.