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Mark Douglas Brown McKinney is a Canadian
comedian and actor. He is best known for his work
as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids
in the Hall from 1989 to 1994, and as a cast
member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 1997.  


=Biography=
==Early Life==
McKinney was born on June 26, 1959 in Ottawa,
Canada.  However, he didn’t grow up in Ottawa. 
Since his father was a diplomat, he did a lot of
traveling when he was young.  Some of the places
he lived while growing up were Trinidad, Paris,
Mexico, and Washington DC, where he attended a
boarding school.  For a short while, Mark was a
student in a university in Newfoundland, where he
was a political science major.

==Acting Career==
===The Kids in the Hall===
He started doing comedy with the Loose Moose
Theatre Company.  There, Mark met Bruce McCulloch.
 Together they formed a comedy team called, “The
Audience.”  Eventually, Mark and Bruce moved to
Toronto, and met Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. 
Dave and Kevin were in the process of forming a
comedy troupe.  Along with Scott Thompson, who
wound up joining after coming to a stage show, and
producer Lorne Michaels, the 
Kids in the Hall (KITH) was formed in 1989.  

Notable "Kids" characters played by McKinney
include the Chicken Lady, Nina from Joymakers,
Gerald the businessman, and the Headcrusher, an
embittered Eastern European who crushes the heads
of passersby between his thumb and forefinger.  

McKinney is considered by some to be the Kids'
most versatile member, adopting countless
different voices, accents, and personalities to
match each bizarre skit. 

===Saturday Night Live===

Following the end of KITH, Mark joined the cast of
another sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live.

===Movie Appearences===
He has appeared in several films, including the
SNL spinoffs Superstar (movie)|Superstar, The
Ladies Man and A Night at the Roxbury. McKinney
also starred opposite Isabella Rossellini in Guy
Maddin's acclaimed tragicomedy The Saddest Music
in the World. 

McKinney cowrote and starred in the Kids in the
Hall movie Brain Candy, in which, among other
roles, he spoofed SNL and KITH executive producer
Lorne Michaels.


His latest appearance on television was playing
Bill, an American who came to Dog River by
accident, in the hit Canadian comedy Corner Gas. 

=Family=

Mark has two children, Christopher Thomas Russell
(b: March 4, 1996), and Emma Jane (b: 2002). He is
married to Marina Gharabegian.  He has two
siblings, an older sister, Jayne, and a younger
brother, Nick, who is a member of the sketch
comedy troupe The Vacant Lot.