Danielle Kennedy
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Danielle Kennedy is an American actress born on January 6 in Chicago, Illinois, with a background in competitive figure skating and an extensive career in regional theatre across Los Angeles, Chicago, Idaho, and Maine. She is also a Care Actor, working within an exclusive group of performers engaged by Kaiser Permanente to help medical staff improve patient care techniques.
Her screen credits span comedies, dramas, and genre productions, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Parks and Recreation, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, The Rookie, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. In feature films, she appeared in Day Shift (2022) alongside Jamie Foxx and received a best supporting actress nomination for Two Witches.
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), Kennedy portrayed Roller Granny, a veteran carhop waitress on roller skates at Spinners Roller Hop in Summerville. The audition for the role, which called for a 70-to-90-year-old actress with roller skating experience, led to Kennedy recording her tape on ice skates at a rink in Sun Valley, Idaho. On the day director Jason Reitman told her one of her improvised lines, director and actress were shooting together on location. The line "Nope" was among her own additions from the original audition video.