Mary Gallagher

Mary Gallagher was born on Dec 11, 1967 in USA. Mary Gallagher's big-screen debut came with Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man - Season 2 directed by Jeff McGrath in 1995. Mary Gallagher is known for Laugh After Dark directed by Kelsey Borlan, Luc Ashley stars as Self and J.T. Footman as Announcer. The upcoming new tvshow Mary Gallagher plays is Laugh After Dark - Season 2 which will be released on Sep 14, 2018.

Mary Gallagher is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer. She is best known for appearances on Friends, The West Wing and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as well as films, including Flightplan and How Do You Know.Originally from Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Mary graduated from The University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, receiving the Chancellor's Medallion for her acting, writing and directing. She and Amy (Ketchum) Holterman formed "The Flying Napkins" presenting comedy to promote social awareness in health and sex education. In 2021, Mary was presented with UWGB's Distinguished Alumni Award.As a stage actor, her performances of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, King Lear, Tartuffe, and In Circles gained her a nomination for the American College Theatre Festival's Irene Ryan Award, and she also took first place in the 15 Minutes of FEM competition at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, playing her character Shelby Gratt.After graduating from UWGB, Mary trained at Second City of Chicago and toured nationally with the improvisation group Wavelength. She was a lead in Rob Reiner's NBC pilot Everyday Life and Jason Alexander's Let Bob Do It for Nickelodeon, and she was the host of the pilot The Short Show for E! Networks, the co-host of Game Show Network's cult classic Faux Pause, and co-host of NBC/PAX-TV's World Cup Comedy (with Dan O'Connor), produced by Kelsey Grammer.In 2018 Mary had her national television stand-up comedy debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Other filmed stand-up comedy performances include Amazon's Laugh After Dark and a 2022 Dry Bar Comedy special. In 2019, her series Be My Therapist (co-created with Brian Kiley) was a finalist at The Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, and she's been a semi-finalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots competition and in the Andy Kaufman Award competition for The New York Comedy Festival as a stand-up comedian.Mary has co-written three screenplays with Michael Markowitz and is currently workshopping her first solo comedy screenplay, "That Sex Thing" at the renowned Actor's Gym in Los Angeles.