Kate Flannery

Kate Flannery (born June 10, 1964)[1] is an American actress. Following her early theatre work, Flannery had her screen breakthrough playing Meredith Palmer on the NBC series The Office, which won her two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She went on to star as Principal Saperstein on the Hulu series All Night, compete on the 28th season of Dancing with the Stars, and voice Carol on the animated series OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes.

Flannery was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of parents Joan and Tom Flannery,[1] and was raised in the suburb of Ardmore, Pennsylvania.[2] She studied for two years at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia and then transferred to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.[2] She has five sisters and a brother,[2] and is three minutes younger than her twin sister, who is a social worker