Nora Dunn

Nora Dunn is a smart, funny, very talented actor and writer who has put up with much bad behavior and isn’t afraid to call it out. Despite all of her excellent work that followed, she feels like she’ll always be associated with Saturday Night Live. She and Jan Hooks were the lounge-singing Sweeney Sisters, she played talk-show host Pat Stevens, and she famously boycotted an episode hosted by comedian Andrew Dice Clay because she argued the show was normalizing someone who reveled in the abuse of women. How did Lorne Michaels punish her at the SNL 40th anniversary? Which legendary director jammed something down her blouse while she was vying for a role? Dunn knows how to tell a story, and she’s still calling it out.