Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Backstage have partnered for a filmed Conversations series in celebration of this year’s Emmy nominees. Please join us on August 10th with Anna Chlumsky, Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Veep. We'll be screening Season 4, Episode 33 "Convention," followed by a Q&A.
Moderated by Mark Peikert, Editor-in-Chief, Backstage.
SYNOPSIS
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
PANELIST BIO
Anna Chlunsky - Actor
Anna Chlumsky is an Emmy nominated actress who has continued to make a name for herself in film, on television and on stage.
Chlumsky can be seen in the Emmy nominated HBO comedy, Veep as “Amy Brookheimer,” former Campaign Manager to the President of the United States (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). In 2015, Chlumsky was nominated for her third consecutive Emmy in the category of “Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series” for her portrayal as Brookheimer. She is set to begin production on the fifth season this fall.
On the big screen, Chlumsky was most recently seen in James Ponsoldt’s The End of Tour starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg, playing the role of Sarah, David Lipsky’s (Eisenberg) girlfriend. The film was released by A24 on July 31, 2015.
Chlumsky made her Broadway debut earlier this year in Scott Ellis’ revival of You Can’t Take It With You. She played “Alice Sycamore,” the daughter of an eccentric family, opposite James Earl Jones and Annaleigh Ashford. She also reprised her role as “Iris Peabody” in Joe DiPietro’s Living on Love which made its Williamstown Theatre Festival debut in 2014 and transferred to Broadway in April 2015. Based on the famed Peccadillo, Chlumsky starred opposite Renee Fleming, Douglas Sills and Jerry O’Connell.
Chlumsky also had a recurring role on NBC’s Hannibal, where she played an FBI trainee at Quantico under Jack Crawford’s tutelage. Other notable TV credits include: White Collar (recurring role), Covert Affairs, The Quinn-Tuplets (CBS Pilot), House Rules (CBS pilot), 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Eight Days A Week (CW pilot), Twelve Men of Christmas and 3 Weeks 3 Kids.
Chlumsky became a household name when she starred alongside Macaulay Culkin as “Vada Sultenfuss” in the 1991 film, My Girl. Other notable film credits include: Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, In The Loop, The Good Guy, Blood Car, My Girl 2, Gold Diggers, The Glamour Reel Short and Wait.
Additionally, her New York stage credits include: 3C, Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Westside Theatre); So Help Me God (Mint Theatre Company); Unconditional (LA Byrinth Theater Company); The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero (DR2); Darwin in Malibu (Bay Street Theatre); The Butcherhouse Chronicles (Summer Play Festival); Balm in Gilead (Barefoot Theater Company - Member); Half Life (Flea Theater/Fringe Festival); Iphigeneia at Aulis (TimeSpace Productions); Measure for Measure (Astoria Performing Arts Center); No Alarms: Headfullofradio (Veritas Productions); and The Trojan Women (Veritas Productions).
She currently resides in New York.
