
Acting
Nora Kirkpatrick
Born 1984-12-06 · Peru, Illinois, USA
Nora Kirkpatrick is an American actress, writer and director. She is a graduate from UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television. She is probably best known for her role as Katherine, the stern president of Panhellenic, on the ABC Family TV series Greek, or for her recurring role on the ninth season of The Office as Esther Bruegger, a neighboring farmer's daughter who becomes Dwight's girlfriend. Kirkpatrick starred in the 2015 film Pink Grapefruit, which won the SXSW Grand Jury Award. She has played many other roles in film and TV, including Men at Work, Jennifer Falls, Don't Trust the B, and Chasing Life. She was one of the leads of the popular mockumentary web series Dorm Life, in which she played Courtney Cloverlock. in 2016, Kirkpatrick created a TV show for Comedy Central entitled Best-Seller, which she wrote with Saturday Night Live alum Dennis McNicholas. The show was produced by Olivia Wilde, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay from Gloria Sanchez Productions. In 2017, Kirkpatrick created, wrote and directed Virtually Mike and Nora, the first virtual reality comedy series for Hulu, with collaborator Mike O'Brien. The first two episodes of the series played at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In a 2017 Forbes article, Kirkpatrick mentions virtual reality's ability to cause "spatial un-comfortability," and her aim to make the viewer the lead character of the story. Kirkpatrick studies and performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in Los Angeles.
Acting credits
5.5When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
Sandy Wexler
2017
4.3When Andy hears his girlfriend Lauren sigh after sex, he panics. But even with the help of his friends, porn stars and tantric experts, he continues to stumble in the bedroom, finally realizing that in order to give Lauren the 'O' word, he first needs to say the 'L' word. Starring Josh Meyers, Krysten Ritter, Ian Somerhalder, Jenna Jameson and Ken Jeong.
How to Make Love to a Woman
2010
5.9A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancee, the morally challenged lawyer who'd been handling her case. She's mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences. By the night's end, revenge will be had, new romance will bloom, and Nikki will have delivered on her reputation as the Sexy Evil Genius.
Sexy Evil Genius
2013
4.9Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Big Sur
2013
5.0It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray out into the streets.
Crashing
2007
NRWhen a teacher at a Christian high school becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she is forced to decide if she should yield to the institution's teachings or fight for her civil liberties.
Woman Child
2017
7.3Seven romantic comedies from the UK, Australia, and the US explore our modern romantic entanglements in all their hilarious, mundane, sexy and nerve-wracking ways. The festival hits from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca star well-known actors like Natalie Dormer, Tom Burke, Yvette Nicole Brown and Rob Huebel among others.
Modern/Love in 7 Short Films
2019
5.3In 1989, a breakthrough in "advanced parasitic research" on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But - something in the experiment went horribly wrong, and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population.
Growth
2010
2.4Youth, in all its messy, drunken glory, is the connective thread at an all night noise-rock concert in the woods, where a motley assortment of music lovers prove that it isn’t always darkest before the dawn.
All Together Now
2013
4.6In a fragile relationship, a husband wants to impress upon his pregnant wife his seriousness in being a good father, so he whisks her away on a babymoon travel holiday to the most exotic, beautiful, Instagram -able, country imaginable, which unbeknownst to him is experiencing a political revolution!
The Babymoon
2017
6.9David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter.
A Slice of Lynch
2007
3.0The axiom that in Hollywood “nobody knows anything” also rings true in the rest of the galaxy, so Earth Ambassador Travis Shepherd discovers when he inadvertently becomes a movie mogul on an alien planet. An infectiously hilarious marvel in its comic escalation.
Movies in Space
2015
5.6Oliver Hayes, an aspiring animator whose confidence is at a low point, meets the captivating and impulsive Lily Blush, who encourages him to drop everything and go with her to Northern California in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasy of working for Pixar Animation Studios. As they travel up the coast, Oliver falls deeply in love but upon making certain startling discoveries he must decide if he wants to face reality or stay in dreamworld.
Dreamworld
2012
No synopsis available yet.
Katrina
2007
8.0Not allowing deafness to limit his dreams, Seth starts a successful pest-control business.
What's Bugging Seth
2005
7.0The surreal story of a young woman who, through interacting with a mysterious, crying stranger at the grocery store, comes to realize her own sadness.
Crying Man
2014
5.8A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned.
Pink Grapefruit
2015
Behind the camera
5.8What happens when a tree falls in the woods and someone does hear it? Two couples are forced to deal with such a question — and their lives in general — when a New Year's Eve trip to the woods unearths simmering feelings and the secrets they carry threaten to break their seemingly perfect relationships.
Couples Weekend
2026
5.8What happens when a tree falls in the woods and someone does hear it? Two couples are forced to deal with such a question — and their lives in general — when a New Year's Eve trip to the woods unearths simmering feelings and the secrets they carry threaten to break their seemingly perfect relationships.
Couples Weekend
2026
Written by three juvenile inmates facing life sentences, "LOS" is a loss of innocence story that follows twelve-year-old Chris as he discovers that smoking pot for the first time, losing his virginity, and being part of a drive-by shooting aren't nearly as scary as being emotionally vulnerable with the girl he loves.
Los
2017
Follows Tess Klein, whose life was supposed to follow the plan: love by 25, marriage by 30, baby by 34. But after a spectacularly failed marriage proposal and one wild rebound weekend where her best friend Kelsey tells her “the only way to get over someone is to get under someone else,” Tess finds herself pregnant — and clueless about who the father is. As she sets out to solve the mystery, she discovers that sometimes the right family finds you.
Whodunnit
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NRAfter accidentally tuning to a late-night radio show, a small-town and sexually repressed woman, calls in to get some answers to her pressing questions.
Long Time Listener, First Time Caller
2019
NRAfter accidentally tuning to a late-night radio show, a small-town and sexually repressed woman, calls in to get some answers to her pressing questions.
Long Time Listener, First Time Caller
2019