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name: "Chris Kelly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-kelly-1334339"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 September 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:04:02.642692+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chris Kelly

Writer. Born 7 September 1983 in Sacramento, California, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 September 1983, Sacramento, California, U.S.
- **Active:** 2014–2018
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kelly_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22338525, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6287571/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1334339

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Broad City*](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Chris Kelly is an American screenwriter and director. He was born on 7 September 1983 in Sacramento, California, and studied at the University of California, Irvine.

Kelly began his career as a staff writer and director at Funny or Die and the Onion News Network, for which he shared a Peabody Award in 2009. He joined the writing staff of *Saturday Night Live* in 2011, later serving as co-head writer with Sarah Schneider for the 2016–17 season; he was the first openly gay head writer of the programme and received several Emmy Award nominations for his work there.

Kelly wrote and consulted on three seasons of the Comedy Central series *Broad City* (2014–2016). He wrote and directed the feature film *Other People* (2016), which premiered at Sundance, and co-created the series *The Other Two* (2019–2023) with Schneider.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *A Star Is Born* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Chris Kelly — [page](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Broad City* (2014), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Thicket* (2024), Writer
- *The Other Two* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *A Star Is Born* (2018), as Chris Kelly — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/a-star-is-born.md)
- *Other People* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Broad City* (2014), series, SelectDate guy, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/broad-city.md)
- *Aubrey Plaza Hates Her Aunt Debra* (2013), Writer
- *This Show Will Get You High* (2010), Writer
- *Mark Twain Prize* (1999), series, Writer

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