Stephnie Weir Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the Chicago Improv Festival Award for female improviser of the year in 2002
• Studied theater and broadcasting at Odessa College and women's studies and anthropology at Southern Illinois University
• Began her career as a comic in Chicago, where she performed at the Improv Olympic and The Second City
• Best known as a former cast member on "MADtv" and for playing Debbie in "Fun with Dick and Jane․"
• As a writer and producer, she has worked on television comedies like "Raising Hope" and "The Millers․"
• Joined "MADtv" as a feature performer in 2000 and became a repertory performer the following season, remaining in that role until she left the show in 2006
• Does impressions of celebrities like Paris Hilton, Laura Bush, Anna Nicole Smith and the Olsen twins