Personal Details Summary | |
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Name | Kelly Landry |
Birthday / How old is Kelly Landry Age / Date of Birth / DOB | November 26, 1986. As of 2025, she is around 39 years old. |
Wedding / Husband / Dating / Married / Boyfriend | No confirmed information is available. |
Children / No. of Kids | No confirmed information is available. |
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
Nationality | American |
Where did Kelly Landry completed studies? | Landry graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Theatre. |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Kelly Landry is an American stand-up comedian and writer, who also runs her own YouTube channel.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Kelly was born on November 26, 1986, in China, Main.
- Being born in American China, for a large part of her childhood she believed that this made her Chinese when she, in fact, has a mix of English and Irish heritage.
- Growing up in a small town, she refers to her childhood as blissfully boring.
- She grew up in a family of all girls and has said she felt bad for her father that he never got a son. She has stated that her dad did his best to encourage his girls to be tomboys.
- Originally intending to be an actress, she convinced her parents to let her take acting lessons.
- This resulted in her traveling to Los Angeles to audition for a small part in the television show Entourage.
- Seeing how desperate some of the girls became during that audition turned off the acting world, and convinced her that she would need to write her own pieces so that she would not have to deal with the audition process regularly.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Landry holds a BFA Theater degree from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York. She graduated in 2009.
Career Timeline : Profession, Net worth and Salary
- Kelly’s big break came after she met Ray William Johnson, a high-profile YouTuber, who gave her the opportunity to write for his highly successful web series ‘Top 6’.
- The success of that led to her working on other projects with him, namely appearing in his other creations Booze Lightyear and Equals Three.
- She was initially hosting Equals Three, but gave up the role due to requirements of other work. Robby Motz replaced her, however, she managed to retain a role as a writer for the series.
- The work that took Landry away from Equals Three was a project called Up in Da Tub, a talk show that she hosted for the app Periscope.
- She has also appeared in many short films both as an actor and a writer.
- Her acting roles include the short movies such as The Reunion, Anonymous Addiction and The Real Pot Heads of North Hollywood.
- She was credited as both the writer and star of The Last Words of Rutherford Grant.
Body Trivia, Gossip and Fun Facts :
- Landry is considered an advocate of women’s rights in the comedy industry and has said her inspiration in that role comes from the likes of Chelsea Handler.
- She has labeled the industry as sexist and asked big directors to acknowledge this so that the issue can be fixed for future generations.
- One of her biggest goals is to write her own TV show, act in it, and win an Emmy award.
- She highly admires popular female comedians such as Whitney Cummings, Amy Poehler, and Natasha Leggero.
- When she first moved to Los Angeles, she worked as a bartender and simultaneously did standup at the Novo Theater club.
- She appears on Twitter (now called X) under the handle of @KellyLandry, and currently she has 30,000+ followers.
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