Kelly McCormack

Kelly McCormack is a Canadian actress, writer, director, musician and producer. As an actress she is best known for playing Jess McCready in the Amazon Prime Video series A League of Their Own, Zeph Vos in the Space/Syfy series Killjoys, and Betty-Anne in the Crave series Letterkenny. McCormack has worked in film, television, and on stage, and runs the production company Floyder Films.

McCormack has written and starred in several independent feature films that have screened at film festivals around the world, including Play the Film (2013), Barn Wedding (2015), and Sugar Daddy (2020).

Career After graduating from university, McCormack moved to New York City to study acting, musical theatre and experimental theatre and performed with The Flea Theatre Company as a member of The Bat Company, performing in Tony Award nominated Liz Swados' Kaspar Hauser. She later moved to Toronto and started working in the Toronto indie theatre scene with playwright Kat Sandler, originating roles in plays like Delicacy, and working in the entertainment industry.

Throughout the 2010s, she played a variety of supporting roles in a number of productions, including in the television series Defiance, 11.22.63, and Damien, as well as in the web series Teenagers and That's My DJ.

In 2013, she wrote her first feature film, Play the Film, in which she also starred. The film was produced for only $1,000. including Best Screenplay at the Broad Humor Film Festival. The following year, she wrote another feature film, Barn Wedding, which screened at film festivals throughout 2015.

In 2017, McCormack served as a producer and actress on several productions. In February of that year, she joined the cast of the Syfy science fiction television series Killjoys in its third season. On the series, she portrayed Zeph, an androgynous scientist, in a recurring role until the series ended.

That summer, the CBC mockumentary The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island, which McCormack both produced and starred in, was released online via CBC's official website.

In November 2017, she joined the cast for the third season of the CraveTV series Letterkenny. In early 2018, she appeared in an episode of the CBC comedy series Crawford. Later that year, she was featured in an episode of The Expanse.

On stage, McCormack has developed and performed in Charlotte: A Tri-Coloured Play With Music, an original opera based on the life of German painter Charlotte Salomon, The film premiered as the opening gala film of the 2020 Whistler Film Festival, where McCormack received an honorable mention for the Borsos Competition award for best performance in a Canadian film, and won the One to Watch award. The film also garnered Kelly the ACTRA Award for Best Performance, and a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Music.

Activism McCormack has been vocal about her support of the #MeToo movement, and was invited to discuss the subject in an interview with CBC's q radio show.

Filmography

Film YearTitleRoleNotes 2016 Special Correspondents Station Accountant 2018 A Simple Favor Stacy 2020 Sugar Daddy Darren 2023 Problemista Sharon 2025 Sorry, Baby Natasha Another Simple Favor Stacy

Television