She played Trina on "Mad TV". See Mo Collins now at 56 years old.

The comic actor has played a much more serious role in recent years.


From 1998 to 2004,Mo Collins made the public laugh during the sketch comedy showCrazy television, playing characters, including high -waisted jeans, Lorraine Swanson and Doreen Larkin, mother atMichael McDonald's Stuart. Read the rest to discover what the actor and the actorCrazy television days and hear about the surprising pandemic return of Lorraine.

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She has assumed more serious roles.

Mo Collins in 2001
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During and afterCrazy television, Collins continued to work regularly, acting in some television drivers and playing recurring roles on popular series, includingJust shoot me,,Ally McBeal,,Modern family, andDevelopment stopped. She also played a memorable wayPawnee today Joan Callamezzo host onParks and leisure. On the big screen, Collins had minor roles in theJudd Apatow moviesBlistering andThe 40 year old Virgin, as good asRobert de Niro filmGrandfather.

This is his role ofSteve Carrell Gina's speed date GinaThe 40 year old Virgin thisFear the undead The producers remembered when they were trying to launch former trucker-Marine Sarah Rabinowitz in the fourth season of this show. The concert marked a tour for Collins, which generally plays comic roles, but she said that she felt prepared.

"[Playing in a drama] was more difficult, just because I mean,I have decades of comedy", She told Scifi Vision." So it was only a new playground. That being said, however, it's like, comedy is a drama. If you make a good comedy , this means that at the heart of it, at its base, there is probably a drama. "

Collins has also done a lot of work as a voiceover actor, playing characters onKing of the hill,,Phineas and Ferb,,F is for the family, andAmerican father, among many others.

It is in remission of a rare form of cancer.

Mo Collins in 2003
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Life took a tour for Collins in 2011 when she noticed a small bump in her abdomen. Sound then-fianceAlex Skuby convince her to have him checked, and she was finallyDiagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor, or the essentials, rare cancer of the stomach and small intestines. The actor took medication to shrink the tumor before undergoing a successful operation to remove it. She is now working to increase awareness of the disease and collect funds for petrol research.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

She is a prolific painter.

Fans of Collins' comedy can be surprised to learn that she is also a talented artist who paints in oils and acrylic. ""I started to make art When I was a little girl, "she said in an interview in 2014 with the sharing of details." I grew up wanting to be an artist. ""

Collins returned to his childhood passion as a way to pass through his diagnosis of cancer. She then published dozens of colored paintings on her own art website (now disappeared).

""My painting has become therapy For me after my "passage" with a real bitch son known as cancer, "she wrote." A beautiful thing about painting (and there is so much), is that When I work (or rather I play) I can think of nothing in the world other than what is happening between me and the canvas. "

She is married to the actor of the King of Queens, Alex Skuby.

Mo Collins and Alex Skuby in 2017
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In June 2013, Collins married his second husband, actor Alex Skuby, perhaps better known to play in Carrie (Leah remini) Boss of the law firm onKing of queens. On the podcastAt home with Linda and Drew Scott, Explained CollinsThe two met on the dating section of Nerve.com. They then played in the 2018 playDamaged furniture Together, and they are currently living in California with a dog called Charlotte and two cats. In addition to being Stepmom to the two adult children of Skuby, Collins is the mother of a 27 -year -old sonCullen Of his first marriage to the actorJimi Englund, which ended with divorce in 2009.

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She relaunched Lorraine on YouTube during locking.

Mo Collins in 2022
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Collins fansCrazy television The Lorraine character appreciated his brief reprisals on the revival of the 20th anniversary of the CW of the Sketch Comedy series in 2016. But it took a pandemic to give the public even more of the beloved character. Collins and Skuby published a series of five videos at The YouTube channel Lorraine In March and April 2020. In videos, Skuby plays a new owner vlog through the experience of the discovery of Lorraine in his garage for 10 years. He invites Lorraine to stay with him during the pandemic, and things only become more annoying from there.

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