The Office (US): Welcome Party


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Welcome Party
Season 8, Episode 20

Robert forces the Scranton branch to host a welcome party for Nellie, but the planners are not so willing. Meanwhile, Erin and Andy role-play his break-up from Jessica


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Movie/Drama Sitcom

Cast & Crew

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James Spader (Actor) .. Robert California
Catherine Tate (Actor) .. Nellie Bertram
Ed Helms (Actor) .. Andy Bernard
Ellie Kemper (Actor) .. Erin Hannon

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James Spader (Actor) .. Robert California
Born: February 07, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts
Best Known For: The Practice and Boston Legal.
Early-life: James Todd Spader was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 7, 1960. He attended schools where his parents taught. He dropped out of school in the eleventh grade to study acting at the Michael Chekhov School in New York. He made ends meet with a variety of jobs, including yoga instructor, stable boy and busboy.
Career: Spader's first major acting role came alongside Brooke Shields in the movie Endless Love (1981). He went on to star in Pretty in Pink (1986), Mannequin (1987), Less Than Zero (1987), Baby Boom (1987), Wall Street (1987), and Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989). Projects in the 1990s included White Palace (1990), True Colors (1991), The Music of Chance (1993), Stargate (1994), and Crash (1996). In 2002 he starred alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal in the critically acclaimed Secretary (2002). He went on to achieve further acclaim on the small screen in the Practice and Boston Legal. More recently, Spader put in a memorable performance in the film Lincoln (2012), and returned to the small screen in NBC drama The Blacklist.
Quote: "I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side."
Trivia: Spader has a photographic memory. He won Emmys for playing the same character in both The Practice and Boston Legal.
Catherine Tate (Actor) .. Nellie Bertram
Born: May 12, 1968 in London
Best Known For: The Catherine Tate Show and Doctor Who.
Early-life: Born Catherine Ford on May 12, 1968, in London, she was raised in the distinctive and iconic Bloomsbury Centre by her florist mother Josephine. Catherine has revealed that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, then the Sylvia Young Theatre School and later graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal National Theatre. She also spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career: Tate's TV career began with small parts in serial dramas Casualty and The Bill, while her comedy talent was nurtured on The Harry Hill Show, Big Train, That Peter Kay Thing and Wild West, a series she made while pregnant. As well as her critically acclaimed comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, she has also appeared in Bleak House, on the West End stage and in the US version of The Office. The comedienne acquired a new set of fans when she became Doctor Who assistant Donna Noble; she reunited with co-star David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End during the summer of 2011.
Quote: Of her Doctor Who appearance, she joked: "I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job this'll do."
Trivia: Tate is the patron of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
Ed Helms (Actor) .. Andy Bernard
Born: January 24, 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia
Best Known For: The Hangover movies.
Early-life: Edward Parker Helms was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 24, 1974 to Pamela and John. He had surgery to correct a heart murmur when he was 14. He went on to study film theory and technology at Oberlin College in Ohio. After graduating, he began writing and performing with New York sketch comedy bands and studied improvisation with the Upright Citizens Brigade troupe. He also worked as a trainee film editor, which led to some voice-over work.
Career: His first break came in 2002 when he passed an audition to become a field reporter on satirical news programme The Daily Show. He stayed with the Jon Stewart-fronted programme until 2006, the year he landed a recurring role as Andy Bernard on the sitcom The Office. His worldwide profile increased enormously in 2009 when he had a lead role in The Hangover movie alongside Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. From a budget of $35million, it went on to gross more than $460million. Two equally successful sequels followed in 2011 and 2013.
Quote: "I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part."
Trivia: Helms plays the banjo, guitar and piano in a bluegrass band called The Lonesome Trio with his friends Ian Riggs and Jacob Tilove.
Ellie Kemper (Actor) .. Erin Hannon
Born: May 02, 1980 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Best Known For: Playing the lead role in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Early-life: Elizabeth Claire Kemper was born on May 2, 1980 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. When she was five, her family moved to St Louis. It was while she was at John Burroughs School that she developed an interest in theatre and improvisational comedy. One of her teachers was Jon Hamm and she appeared in a school play with him. She graduated from Princeton University in 2002 with an English degree and then spent a year at Oxford University studying for a graduate degree in English Literature.
Career: Kemper's career started out with improv and sketch comedy performances, appearances on advertisements and guest appearances in various TV series. She landed the role of Erin Hannon in the American version of The Office in 2009 and stayed with the show until it ended in 2013. Kemper has had supporting roles in such films as 21 Jump Street (2012) and Bridesmaids (2011). She also plays the lead character in Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. As well as this, she has voiced characters in such animated films as The Secret Life of Pets (2016), The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) and Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017).
Quote: "I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist."
Trivia: She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

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