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For Lisa Gilroy,
none of this was
the plan.
Not the recurring roles in multiple streaming shows. Not the dozens of smaller comedic parts, in which she holds her own brilliantly against everyone from Andy Samberg to Jennifer Aniston to Blink-182. And certainly not the millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok. Heck, Gilroy wasn’t even supposed to move to Toronto, let alone Los Angeles.
No, for the 34-year-old comedian and actress — whose latest TV project, as part of the cast of Interior Chinatown, comes to Hulu next month — the original goal was simple: teach high-school drama in Edmonton.
“I thought, if I want to live a playful, goofy life, the closest thing I can imagine is being a drama teacher,” Gilroy says in a recent phone interview.
She nearly got there, too, even completing her final practicum at Archbishop MacDonald High School. But then she misread an email while hiding in the darkness in a wizard’s costume, and everything changed.
Like pretty much everything Gilroy does these days, it’s a funny story.
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