Kate Flannery

Kate Flannery (born June 10, 1964) is an American actress known for playing the role of Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office. 2Personal life Flannery was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Saints Colman- John Neumann School and Archbishop John Carroll High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She studied for two years at Shenandoah University and graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Flannery has been dating an NBC stills photographer since 2006. They met on The Office. She is one of seven children in an Irish-American family. She is three minutes younger than her twin sister who is a social worker. 2Career 3Improvisation A former member of The Second City's National Touring Company, Flannery is an original member of Chicago's Annoyance Theater, where she created over 15 shows including The Miss Vagina Pageant and The Real Live Brady Bunch. The Lampshades, her cult comedy lounge act with veteran improviser Scot Robinson, has been running in Hollywood and in comedy festivals all over the country since 2001 and was seen at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorad