Award-winning actress and comedian Kathryn Hahn has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years, delivering dramatic portrayals that are just as skillful as her scene-stealing comedy roles.
Her career began on television starring as grief counselor Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series “Crossing Jordan.” Other television credits include a recurring guest role as Jennifer Barkley on the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” (the origin of a widely recognized winking-face meme), the critically acclaimed Amazon Prime Video comedy-drama series “Transparent,” the HBO comedy miniseries “Mrs. Fletcher” (in which she stars as a divorced empty nester experiencing a sexual awakening), and the HBO drama miniseries “I Know This Much Is True” (based on the Wally Lamb novel of the same name). Hahn also does voice work and portrays Paige Hunter in the Apple TV+ animated musical comedy series “Central Park.”
Since 2021, Hahn has starred as Agatha Harkness in the Disney+ miniseries “WandaVision,” for which she received critical acclaim and several awards, including a Fairbanks Award at the San Diego International Film Festival, an MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Villain, and a Hollywood Critics Association TV Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Television Movie.
Hahn also has a slew of film credits to her name, including the love-starved and wildly inappropriate Alice in “Stepbrothers,” the chaotic Brazilian wax specialist Carla in “Bad Moms” and “A Bad Moms Christmas,” and a robot-in-human-clothing in “Tomorrowland.” She has also appeared in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Our Idiot Brother,” “We're the Millers,” and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” among others.
Hahn grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and attended Northwestern University, where she obtained her bachelor of arts in theater. Afterward, she earned her master of fine arts in drama from Yale University.
Hahn has two hush-hush projects in the works, “Knives Out 2” and her “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha: House of Harkness.”
"It's a thrilling time for women my age," Hahn told Entertainment Weekly. "There seems to be an opening for more roles for women over a certain age that are complex, messy, contradictory kind of anti-heroes."