Keiko Agena
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You Might Know Her From Gilmore Girls, Better Call Saul, Prodigal Son, The First, Shameless, Hair Show, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 13 Reasons Why, and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Keiko gave us all the scoop on playing Lane on Gilmore Girls, how she REALLY felt about where her character ended up, and if she thinks there's more story to tell in Stars Hollow. Plus, improvising with Mo'Nique and Taraji, shadowing Frances McDormand as she finessed Michael Bay, and transitioning to authority figure roles when you're so iconically a "teen" on screen. Keiko was so kind and warm and maybe...
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PATREON Sneak: DD Fuego from Rupaul's Drag Race
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Fueggots, we're here with drag artist DD Fuego from season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race. And what a joyful day it is to be with one of the friends of You Might Know Her From. We're old pals with DD so it's been a complete joy to watch her go from art director for NY theatre and Billy on the Street (and closeted at-home drag queen) to a New York City queen and hostess to a contestant on the biggest queer show on TV right now. DD talks about her experiences on the show, being the Miss Porkchop of the season, those final lip sync numbers, what she had up her sleeve for Snatch Game, and what we can...
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Roomies for a Weekend: We Did a Live Show in Denver
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Folks, we did it! We did another live-recording and dipped our toe into the world of academia. Thank you to CU-Denver and Professor Stephanie Kornick for bringing us out and thank you to Beth Malone for being down to clown with us for the peoples. We are just doing a little check-in here and giving you some of mindgrapes the morning after. Won't you indulge us, babe? Patreon: Follow us on social media: on IG || on TT || Discussed this week: We like from Good Morning, Miami Banana Split drag queen dressed as Cousin Itt for the rerturn of DD Fuego on Drag Race @ We can't find a...
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Donna Lynne Champlin
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You Might Know Her From Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Perfect Couple, The First Lady, Birdman, and Broadway productions of Hollywood Arms, By Jeeves, and Sweeney Todd. This week, Donna Lynne gave us the goods on figuring out the rules of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend universe and now the fans helped shaped the show’s future. We also talked about bringing the authentic Fall River accent to The Perfect Couple, nailing that one iconic scene in Birdman without any permits, and her short hand in the theatre with legends like Sondheim, Carol Burnett, and Hal Prince. Patreon: Follow us on...
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Betty Buckley
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You Might Know Her From Carrie, Split, The Happening, Frantic, Oz, Eight is Enough, Tender Mercies, Wyatt Earp, Eternity, and theatrical productions of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and 1776. We talk to Tony-winner Betty Buckley about her upcoming residence at Joe’s Pub April 24-26 2026. Betty also teased the new Amanda Kramer sci-fi drama By Design, the Annie Get Your Gun rodeo pitch that never came to be, and all the Easter-egg voices she’s provided from Tender Mercies to Hair. Betty also gave us all the epic juice from starring in Brian De Palma’s Carrie...
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Vanessa Bell Calloway
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You Might Know Her From Shameless, One of Them Days, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Harriet, Bebe’s Kids, Saints & Sinners, Daylight, the original cast of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and What’s Love Got To Do With It? We talked to Vanessa about her full-circle Tina Turner moment from the “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” music video to the Angela Bassett-led biopic; playing Tina’s Ikette-turned-bestie Jackie; and the stunt gone wrong in the diner. Plus barking in Coming to America, acting opposite influencers and “housewives,” and originating in the iconic OBC of...
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Harriet Sansom Harris
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You Might Know Her From Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza, Addams Family Values, Desperate Housewives, The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, Ratchet, The Agency: Central Intelligence, and the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Harriet Harris gave us the skinny on being directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, acting opposite Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread, and being pied in the face (at least twice) at the hands of Paul Rudnick. All that plus she walked us through all of Felicia Tillman’s delicious Desperate Housewives plotlines, the “queerness” of The 5 Mrs. Buchannons, and her influence...
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Patreon SNEAK PEEK: Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin on Anal Glands, Webster, Diff'rent Strokes, & Archie Panjabi
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Folks, we're here with our pals Andy Beckerman and Naomi Ekperigin. Both brilliant writers, comedians, and performers who also co-host the podcast Couples Therapy together. We were so tickled to have them join us on the show to talk sitcoms, Hollywood gossip, body talk, our dogs being actors, and more. Interested in more of this? Subscribe at the Patreon for AD-FREE LISTENING and lots od extra Damian and Anne stuff. ==== || beef Go watch
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Olga Merediz
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It’s Olga, with the German name! That’s right, we are here with actress and singer Olga Merediz. You Might Know Her From In the Heights, Encanto, Blockbuster, Eternity, Evita, Music of the Heart, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Orange is the New Black, and the Original Broadway Company of The Human Comedy. Olga gave us all the good on her Tony-nominated turn in In the Heights and recreating Abuela Claudia 14 years later in Jon M. Chu’s 2021 film adaptation. Plus, we got to hear what it was like to play ONLY the singing voice for a character in Encanto, working on a never-saw-the-light-of-day...
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Patreon Sneak Peek: Oscars 2026 Recap
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We watched the Oscars and want to discuss with you. We're elated for Amy Madigan! Enjoy this sneak peek of our 2026 Oscars Recap and head on over to patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom to hear the rest where we get into Barbra and a missing Wendi McLendon-Covey. We will be movie clubbing Amy Madigan's other Oscar nominated performance, .
info_outlineTell me more, tell me more! Today we are joined by Didi Conn. You Might Know Her From Grease, Grease 2, You Light Up My Life, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, The Magic Show, Frida, Benson, and Shining Time Station. We spoke with THEE Didi Conn about her iconic performance in the Grease films as Frenchie, the legacy of the franchise carrying on with Grease Live! and Joan Blondell’s shoes, and our age-old question about psoriasis as heart disease. Plus, how Toy Story stole from Raggedy Ann & Andy, standing by for Mercedes Ruehl on Broadway, her horrific experience with Joseph Brooks, and the beauty of the musical The Magic Show. This one was a total thing of dreams.
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Discussed this week:
Jacob Elordi is hot to everyone. And Barry Keoghan has the ugly sexy thing down
We loved Cailly Spaeny and Lily Gladstone and Erika Alexander
Golden Globes were a mess this year
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is so good and we are hoping for an Oscar nomination for The Holdovers (don’t jinx it)
Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey special
Aloha (2015) was indeed directed by Cameron Crowe, not Alexander Payne
Tracy Morgan took Eddie Murphy’s advice for The Last O.G. and hired Da’Vine
Love Chris Klein in Election
Our Oscar nominated guests on YMKHF: Kathleen Turner (Ep #9), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Ep#72), JoBeth Williams (#99), and Lesley Ann Warren (Ep #78)
Yalitza Aparicio from Roma garnered all kinds of acclaim, and where is she now?
Tantoo Cardinal is so good
In the Stephen Schwartz musical, The Magic Show starring Doug Henning
Starred in the movie, Joseph Brooks You Light Up My Life
Joseph Brooks who “wrote” and directed it was a horrible man,. He met a grisly end
Her son is autistic and is currently living in The Center for Discovery
Played Denise, Benson’s new secretary on Benson
Didi Conn introduced herself to David Shire as his crush, Charlotte Rampling, who wrote the music for Farewell My Lovely
Was the voice of Raggedy Ann in the 1977 Richard Williams animated movie, Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure
Joe Raposo wrote all the music for the movie and he had written a lot of music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company (including the “C is for Cookie” and the Sesame Street song)
Was a standby and then replacement for Mercedes Ruehl in Lost in Yonkers (1991) with Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang cartoon
Stacey Jones in Shining Time Station, which she says was horrible for her career
Conductors: Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin
The tv show was funded by Amtrak and MTH Electric Trains
Thomas movie was filmed on The Isle of Man
Of course played Frenchie in the 1978 classic, Grease (director: Randal Kleiser, choreographer: Pat Birch, producer: Allan Carr)
Kelly Ward (Putzie) was dance captain for Pat Birch
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies has been wiped from Paramount+
Tegrin’s ad: “The heartbreak of psoriasis”
Was there film in the camera for Frenchie’s number in Grease 2?
Skating with the Stars judge was a dick (start at 3:27)
Was Alice Ghostley’s Mrs Murdoch gay (watch the dancing)
Was waitress in Frida and had Across the Universe (friends with Julie Taymor and worked with her on the stage play, The Green Bird)
Lifted out the door on Cagney and Lacey (s6e12). Who had more upper body strength? Both!
CGI’d pink ladies guy head on body in Rise of the Pink Ladies
Dr Pepper theme song: “I’m a Pepper, You’re a Pepper”
In My Life one of the worst Broadway shows I’ve ever seen (it was a huge flop) and he has Tourette's not autism
Our interview with Talia Balsam (ep #12) introduced us to You Light Up My Life
David Shire (Didi’s husband) wrote the Oscar-nominated song for Norma Rae
Barry Pearl holds all the Grease secrets