Ellie Kemper - Princeton
Graduation Year: 2002, English Major
Claims to Campus Fame: Freshman Varsity Field Hockey Player, Triangle (annual musical-comedy), Quipfire! (improv troupe)
From her Dunder Mifflin desk on
The Office, Kemper's character Erin catches daily glimpses of Andy Bernard's office, which is decked-out in Cornell gear. But Kemper has tiger pride.
Kemper's mother also went to Princeton;
while there, she was among the first women to write for and perform in the school's Triangle show. Her on-stage stories inspired Kemper to drop her field hockey stick and try her hand at comedy writing.
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