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Kirby Howell-Baptiste credits her skill of selecting the kind of roles that quickly become fan favorites to"part fortune, part pickiness." It doesn't hurt that pretty much every one of the projects she's worked on—from The Good Place to Killing Eve to Barry to the latest season of Veronica Mars—have also managed to cut through the crowded TV landscape and become hits.
When Howell-Baptiste was a kid, she wanted to be three things: a teacher, a lawyer, and a hairdresser. That's right, she didn't want to just be one of those things, she wanted to be all of them."These are the professions that I saw around me, and so I was just like, These seem great," she says. Becoming a teacher sort of happened: She worked as a teaching assistant during her gap year with kids who have autism, which she admits is"a much harder job than I do now.
But it was Los Angeles where she would eventually start taking classes at the comedy hotspot Upright Citizen Brigade; meet future stars, like Saturday Night Live cast member Ego Nwodim and D'Arcy Carden, who plays Janet on The Good Place ; and land her first co-starring role. L.A. quickly became the place that Howell-Baptiste would call home for the next eight years and that would open up a world of opportunity.
More than anything, Howell-Baptiste is grateful for the new platform these roles have given her."I think what's exciting is feeling like I've been given a launchpad from these shows, and then sort of being visible," she says."So now I'm thinking about what the next exciting thing that I work on is going to be.
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