Kathryn Hahn

Kathryn Hahn has built a career out of making every kind of part feel more vivid. Equally at home in comedy, drama, television, film and voice work, she can play tightly wound, cheerfully disruptive or quietly bruised—sometimes within the same performance. Born in Westchester, Illinois, in 1973, Hahn grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She earned a BA in theatre from Northwestern University and an MFA in drama from Yale, where she played Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Célimène in The Misanthrope. She did extensive stage work before film and television became the centre of her career. Her early screen years were shaped by supporting roles that made good use of her comic timing, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers and Our Idiot Brother. On television, she played Lily Lebowski on Crossing Jordan from 2001 to 2007, then sharpened her scene-stealing credentials as political strategist Jennifer Barkley on Parks and Recreation. Afternoon Delight gave Hahn her first leading film role in 2013 and brought a Gotham Independent Film Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor. She continued moving easily between broad studio comedy and more intimate material, appearing in Bad Moms, Captain Fantastic and Private Life. Her television work has been just as varied, from Rabbi Raquel Fein in Transparent and the title role in Mrs Fletcher to Clare in Tiny Beautiful Things, which earned her Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Hahn also found a different kind of audience as Agnes, later revealed as Agatha Harkness, in WandaVision. The performance led to the 2024 spinoff Agatha All Along and further nominations for the Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Awards. Her voice roles include Ericka Van Helsing in Hotel Transylvania 3 and Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Whether leading a series or arriving to tilt a scene off balance, Hahn brings theatrical grounding, elastic comic instincts and a willingness to let characters remain complicated.