Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American comedian and actress. She is known as the creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as well as the co-creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls. 2Early life Cummings was born and raised in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Her mother is Patti Cummings, a former public relations director at Neiman Marcus at Mazza Gallerie. Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old. She has an older half-brother named Kevin Cummings, and an older sister, Ashley Cummings. She went to high school at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland, graduating in 2000. She interned at Washington's NBC-owned television station WRC-TV as a journalist. She studied acting at Washington, D.C.’s Studio Theater. Cummings graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude in 2004 with a degree in Communication