Actor

Kaitlin Olson

Acting

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

3.4

Moderate attention

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Movies: 17Series: 29Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 95102

IMDb ID: nm0647698

Known for: Acting

Born: August 18, 1975

Age: 51

Place of birth: Tigard, Portland, Oregon, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1989 - 2024

Years active: 36

Average TMDB rating: 6.66

Wikidata: Q290094

Also known as

Kaitlin Willow Olson McElhenney • Kaitlin Willow Olson

Other jobs

Producer (1)

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Biography

Kaitlin Willow Olson McElhenney (born August 18, 1975) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She began her career in The Sunday Company at the Groundlings, an improvisational theatre and school in Los Angeles, California. She had minor roles in several television series before being cast as Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds on the long-running FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present). Olson starred as Mackenzie "Micky" Murphy in the Fox comedy series The Mick (2017–2018) and as Cricket Melfi in the Quibi comedy series Flipped (2020), which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. She has also appeared in films including Leap Year (2010), The Heat (2013), Vacation (2015), Finding Dory (2016), and Arizona (2018). She has been married to actor Rob McElhenney, her co-star on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, since 2008.