Molly Hawkey
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Molly Hawkey
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Molly Driscoll Hawkey
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|8|28}}
| birth_place = Ossining, New York, U.S.
| alma_mater = Cornell University {{small|(B.Sc.)}}
| occupation = {{Flat list|
- Actress
- photographer
- comedian
- producer
}}
| years_active = 2004{{endash}}present
| relatives = Renn Hawkey {{small|(brother)}}
}}
Molly Driscoll Hawkey (born August 28, 1978){{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2QJ5-R7M|title=Personal Details for Molly Driscoll Hawkey|website=FamilySearch|accessdate=February 21, 2015}} is an American actress, photographer, and comedian. She portrayed Lacey Wilcox in the horror comedy Brain Blockers (2007), Molly in the drama Higher Ground (2011), and voiced Orro Oxslayer in the fantasy video game Guild Wars 2 (2012). In 2016, she became known for editing herself into episodes of The Bachelor, which she made into a web series titled Molly on The Bachelor.
Early life
Hawkey was born and raised in Ossining, New York. She is the youngest of five children born to Penelope "Penny" (née Sharp), an advertising executive who wrote the famous Coca-Cola commercial "Hey Kid, Catch!",{{cite web|url=http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/what-the-iliad-the-odyssey-and-mean-joe-have-in-common|title=Advertising; Hawkey Going To Bloom Unit|website=The New York Times|first=Philip H.|last=Dougherty|date=February 25, 1985|accessdate=October 12, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/hawkey-leaves-publicis-36823/|title=Hawkey Leaves Publicis|website=Adweek|date=June 2, 1997|accessdate=December 27, 2016}} and William Stevenson "Bill" Hawkey, who also worked in advertising.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} Her parents now own and operate Sundial Farm, a plant nursery in Ossining.{{cite web|url=http://armonk.dailyvoice.com/lifestyle/sundial-farm-takes-gardening-to-new-heights/436267/|title=Sundial Farm Takes Gardening to New Heights|website=Armonk Daily Voice|first=Fenella|last=Pearson|date=August 22, 2011|accessdate=December 27, 2016}} She has four full brothers: Adam, a film compositor and colorist, Robin, a chiropractor, Renn, a musician and film producer, and Timothy, a marketing managing director.{{cite web|url=http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/post-production/image-systems-names-colorist-adam-hawkey-as-strategic-consultant/|title=Image Systems Names Colorist Adam Hawkey as Strategic Consultant|website=Below the Line|date=September 28, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://laist.com/2007/12/06/laist_interview_78.php|title=LAist Interview: Dr. Robin Hawkey on Chiropractics|website=LAist|first=Sloane|last=Berrent|date=December 6, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106041707/http://laist.com/2007/12/06/laist_interview_78.php|archivedate=November 6, 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/parking-strictly-prohibited.html|title=Parking Strictly Prohibited|website=The New York Times|first=Steve|last=Garbarino|date=September 23, 2001}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hemophilia.org/sites/default/files/event/files/Tim-Hawkey.pdf|title=Area23: Managing Director, Executive Creative Director Tim Hawkey|website=Hemophilia.org|accessdate=December 30, 2016}} Hawkey also has two paternal half-siblings from her father's first marriage: William, a headmaster of The Pennington School, and Elisabeth, a corporate chef.{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/10/william_hawkey_prepares_to_take_over_as_headmaster_of_the_pennington_school.html|title=William Hawkey prepares to take over as headmaster of The Pennington School|website=NJ.com|first=Wendy|last=Plump|date=October 5, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.genforum.genealogy.com/hawkey/messages/148.html|title=Greetings from the New York branch|website=Genealogy.com|first=Penny|last=Hawkey|date=January 23, 2002|accessdate=February 21, 2015}} She attended the Hackley School, from which she graduated in 1996,{{cite web|url=http://www.classmates.com/people/Molly-Hawkey/208427591|title=Molly Hawkey Class of 1996 – Hackley School|website=Classmates.com|accessdate=February 21, 2015}} and went on to graduate from Cornell University with a degree in psychology.{{cite web|url=http://www.apocalypstick.com/mad-men-interviews-molly-hawkey/|title=The Mad Men Interviews: Molly Hawkey|website=Apocalypstick.com|first=Almie|last=Rose|date=December 2, 2013}}
Career
=Acting=
Hawkey made her acting debut with a minor role in the 2004 short film Hard-bitten. She had a major supporting role as Lacey Wilcox in the horror comedy film Brain Blockers, which was released in March 2007. She next appeared in the small role of Molly in the religious drama film Higher Ground, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903596904576514232386704352|title=Saving It By Directing It|website=The Wall Street Journal|first=Rachel|last=Dodes|date=August 19, 2011}} The film was directed by her sister-in-law Vera Farmiga and produced by her older brother Renn Hawkey. She has since guest starred in multiple television series, such as Mad Men, Finding Carter, and Mom, and in the web series Ghost Ghirls.
She voiced Orro Oxslayer in the 2012 fantasy video game Guild Wars 2. In 2013, Hawkey created the web series Holy Singles in which she starred as Sevany Martin, an unlucky-in-love girl who hosts weekly Christian singles meet-ups in her backyard. The first episode was wholly improvised by Hawkey. In 2015, she began appearing in the comedy web series F'd, on which she also serves as producer, and for which she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress – Comedy at the Los Angeles Web Series Festival. Both series were distributed online by Funny or Die.
In 2016, Hawkey gained publicity when she began editing herself into episodes of the ABC dating reality game show The Bachelor.{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/news/online-originals/do-it-yourself-career|title=A Do-It-Yourself Career|website=Emmys.com|first=Melissa|last=Byers|date=July 8, 2016|accessdate=December 27, 2016}} She told BuzzFeed, "While watching Chris Soules' season of The Bachelor I thought, 'Oh man! I need to cut myself into the next season!' There are so many elements about the show that crack me up, so I knew I would just need to heighten the tropes that amused me most."{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/alivelez/the-most-hilarious-rose-ceremony-ever#.ikDbMPbAB|title=This Hilarious Woman Is Inserting Herself Into "The Bachelor" And It Is Glorious|website=BuzzFeed|first=Ali|last=Velez|date=January 20, 2016|accessdate=January 25, 2016}} The series, titled Molly on The Bachelor, was acquired by Funny or Die.{{cite web|url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/news/a52462/the-bachelor-molly-hawkey-comedy-videos/|title=This Comedian Inserting Herself Into The Bachelor Deserves All of the Roses|website=Cosmopolitan|first=Rebecca|last=Rose|date=January 20, 2016|accessdate=January 25, 2016}}
She appears as herself in the documentary The Pistol Shrimps, which follows the women's recreational basketball team of the same name in which she is a founding member. The film premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/pistol-shrimps-2016|title=Pistol Shrimps – 2016 Tribeca Film Festival|website=Tribeca Film Festival|accessdate=April 12, 2016}} Hawkey then had a cameo role as an interviewer in the comedy film The Tiger Hunter (2016). She next starred as Carla Wendos, a parody of keyboardist Wendy Carlos, in the Adult Swim parody infomercial Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth.{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/news/65229-adult-swim-parodies-giorgio-moroder-vangelis-wendy-carlos-watch/|title=Adult Swim Parodies Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis, Wendy Carlos: Watch|website=Pitchfork|first=Evan|last=Minsker|date=May 3, 2016|accessdate=December 27, 2016}} Hawkey then played the lead role of Shelly Warren in the short comedy-drama film Vape.{{cite web|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/vape-is-a-seriously-ridiculous-parody-of-everyones-favorite-new-vice-64d61980b2c9#.j0ezcs1l3|title=Vape is a Seriously Ridiculous Parody of Everyone's Favorite New Vice|website=Film School Rejects|first=H. Perry|last=Horton|date=January 10, 2017|accessdate=January 17, 2017}}
=Photography=
As a photographer, Hawkey has taken the headshots of actors such as Tim Meadows, Lauren Lapkus, Vera Farmiga, Taissa Farmiga, Keegan-Michael Key, and Jeff Perry. She served as still photographer for the film Higher Ground.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-hassler/vera-farmiga-finds-higher_b_869471.html|title=Vera Farmiga Finds Higher Ground With Her New Film|website=The Huffington Post|first=Linda|last=Hassler|date=June 1, 2011|accessdate=May 2, 2016}}
=Podcast=
In May 2018, Hawkey started Spermcast, a comedic podcast to help her find a sperm donor.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/molly-hawkey-sperm-cast_n_5b6213abe4b0fd5c73d5deef|title=This Woman Created A Podcast To Find A Sperm Donor. It Changed Her Life In Ways She Didn't Expect.|last=Amanda Duberman|date=August 2, 2018|website=HuffPost|accessdate=July 11, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2018/07/12/she-needed-a-sperm-donor-so-she-started-a-podcast/?noredirect=on|title=She Needed a Sperm Donor so She Started a Podcast|last=Swann|first=Jennifer|date=July 12, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate=July 10, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/how-will-disney-fox-deal-affect-what-you-see-in-theaters-and-on-tv/la-woman-starts-a-podcast-to-find-a-sperm-donor|title=LA woman starts a podcast to find a sperm donor|website=KCRW|date=19 July 2018 |accessdate=July 11, 2019}} Spermcast is broadcast by network Earios as one of its flagship shows.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/06/earios-podcast-slate-lesley-arfin-margaret-cho-1202640087/|title=Podcasts From Lesley Arfin & Margaret Cho Lead Debut Slate Of Earios, Network Co-Founded By Former WME Comedy Agent Priyanka Mattoo|last=White|first=Peter|date=July 1, 2019|website=Deadline Hollywood|accessdate=July 11, 2019}}
Personal life
Hawkey moved to Los Angeles in October 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.ejscott.com/ej-podcast-2016-molly-hawkey/|title=EJ Podcast #107 with Molly Hawkey|website=EJScott.com|date=December 26, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://dctla.apulpatel.com/2015/04/02/tinder-profiles-real-life-mad-men-and-the-pistol-shrimps/|title=Tinder Profiles, Real-Life "Mad Men" and The Pistol Shrimps|website=Don't Come to L.A.|date=April 2, 2015}} Through her brother Renn's marriage, she is the sister-in-law actress Vera Farmiga. Hawkey is a member of the Los Angeles recreational basketball team the Pistol Shrimps, alongside actresses Aubrey Plaza, Maria Blasucci, and Angela Trimbur.{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2014/09/aubrey-plaza-pistol-shrimps-basketball.html|title=Meet the Pistol Shrimps, the Hottest Pickup Basketball Team in America|website=GQ|first=Steven|last=Lebron|date=September 26, 2014|accessdate=February 21, 2015}} She plays in the position of power forward.{{cite web|url=http://www.thetournament.com/players/molly-hawkey|title=Molly Hawkey: #33 Power Forward|website=The Basketball Tournament|accessdate=December 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090108/http://www.thetournament.com/players/molly-hawkey|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}} Hawkey is a member of the improvisational comedy troupes The Second City and iO West.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2004
| Hard-bitten | Jogger's Friend | Short film |
| 2006
| Slideshow | Molly | Short film |
| 2007
| Lacey Wilcox | |
| 2011
| Molly | |
| 2012
| Dominion Street | The Beaver | Short film |
| 2014
| Blood Shed | Nurse 2 | Uncredited |
| 2014
| Get Up! | Woman | Short film |
| 2016
| Herself | Documentary |
| 2016
| Interviewer 3 | |
| 2016
| Vape | Shelly Warren | Short film |
| 2019
| You Can Do This | Annie | Short film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2012
| Mad Men | Sarah | Episode: "Lady Lazarus" |
| 2014
| Mom | Woman | Episode: "Clumsy Monkeys and a Tilted Uterus" |
| 2014
| Agent Dawson | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2016
| Live at the Necropolis: The Lords of Synth | Carla Wendos | Adult Swim special |
| 2017
| Longmire | Jackie Purcell | Episode: "Fever" |
| 2019
| SMILF | Martina | Episode: "Should Mothers Incur Loss Financially?" |
| 2019
| Customer | Episode: "The Preemie Monologues" |
Other credits
=Video games=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role |
|---|
| 2012
| Orro Oxslayer |
=Web=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2011
| Consequences | Lisa | 2 episodes |
| 2013
| Janice | Episode: "I Believe in Mira-ghouls" |
| 2013
| Holy Singles | Sevany Martin | 6 episodes; also creator and producer |
| 2014
| Red Shirts | Angry Bar Patron | Episode: "Space Criminal Part 1" |
| 2015–2016
| F'd | Molly | 14 episodes; also producer |
| 2016
| Molly on The Bachelor | Herself | 18 episodes; also creator and producer |
| 2016
| Wait Crimes | Calm Church Woman | Episode: "Tips for Salvation" |
=Podcasts=
- Spermcast (2018–present)
References
{{Reflist|30em}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|1402335}}
- {{Twitter}}
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Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from New York (state)
Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Television producers from New York (state)
Category:American women television producers
Category:American web producers
Category:American web series actresses
Category:American women comedians
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:People from Ossining, New York
Category:21st-century American comedians
Category:21st-century American women photographers