Nadya Ginsburg

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Nadya Ginsburg is an American actress, comedian and television writer. She is best known as a cast member on the sketch comedy show Hype, her recurring role on the show Partners and for her online comedy videos where she appears as Cher and Madonna, most notably the web series "The Madonnalogues".

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Career

Ginsburg's first high profile gig was as a cast member on the short-lived variety sketch TV show Hype, created and written by Madtv writer Scott King. In 2010 she created a parody song and video of the Lady Gaga hit Poker Face with re-written lyrics about meteorologist Al Roker, and it went viral. She subsequently appeared on Good Morning America and was interviewed by Roker. The national attention revitalised interest in a 2007 web series Ginsburg starred in called The Worm, in which she portrayed an alien being that impersonated Madonna, Cher, Winona Ryder and others.

Ginsburg's parody impersonation of Madonna spun into a live show called The Madonnalogues, which in turn became an 8 episode web series by the same name. She also co-wrote and starred in the short film If We Took a Holiday, in which she portrays an actress whose best friend requests that she pretend to be Madonna and accompany him for the whole of his birthday.

Ginsburg was a writer on the Joan Rivers show Fashion Police for two years. She left the show as part of a writer's strike contesting that Rivers refused to pay fair wages or provide health insurance to the writing team. [1]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999 Let it Snow Store Owner
1999 The Crown Knights Various VoicesNorth American Dub Release
2005Lincoln's EyesVarious Voices
2005 Adam & Steve Miranda
2008ReunionMaureen
2009The CouchBobka
2013Coulrophobia or the Greatest Dinner Party on EarthShari
2014If We Took a HolidayNadya/Madonna
2015Club KingSelf
2017Her Side of the BedNaomi
2020 Friendsgiving Aunt Anna
2020Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger KingIsadora Manacotti Exotic

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000SGVarious Voices
2000-2001 Hype Various
2010The Damiana FilesMadonna
2011 Selene's Hollywood ConfidentialSelf
2013 RuPaul's Drag Race Self (Guest Judge)
2013 Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! Self
2013 Betty Bowers: America's Best ChristianMadonnaEpisode: "America's Best Christian Pageant"
2012-2013 Partners Robert Hockman-Klein4 episodes
2015Hard DecisionsJulianne Majestique2 episodes
2016 2 Broke Girls MichelleEpisode: "And the Ten Inches"

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References

  1. "Inside the Fashion Police Writers Strikes". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-08-11.