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.

Career

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Ginsburg's first high profile gig was as a cast member on the short-lived variety sketch TV show Hype, created and written by the 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 the 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 in which Ginsburg had starred called The Worm, in which she portrayed an alien being who 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 eight-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 complaining that Rivers refused to pay fair wages or provide health insurance to the writing team.[1]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1999 Let it Snow Store Owner
1999 The Crown Knights Various voices North American dub release
2005 Lincoln's Eyes Various voices
2005 Adam & Steve Miranda
2008 Reunion Maureen
2009 The Couch Bobka
2013 Coulrophobia or the Greatest Dinner Party on Earth Shari
2014 If We Took a Holiday Nadya/Madonna
2015 Club King Self
2017 Her Side of the Bed Naomi
2020 Friendsgiving Aunt Anna
2020 Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King Isadora Manacotti Exotic

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2000 Spy Groove Various voices
2000-2001 Hype Various
2010 The Damiana Files Madonna
2011 Selene's Hollywood Confidential Self
2013 RuPaul's Drag Race Self (Guest Judge)
2013 Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! Self
2013 Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian Madonna Episode: "America's Best Christian Pageant"
2012-2013 Partners Roberta Hockman-Klein 4 episodes
2015 Hard Decisions Julianne Majestique 2 episodes
2016 2 Broke Girls Michelle Episode: "And the Ten Inches"

References

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  1. ^ Kohen, Yael (11 August 2013). "Inside the Fashion Police Writers' Strikes". Vulture. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
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