Full Text of HR0533 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Melissa McCarthy | 4 | | for winning the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy | 5 | | Series as Molly Flynn in the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly ; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Melissa was raised on a farm in Plainfield, in a | 7 | | "big, Irish-Catholic family"; she graduated from Joliet | 8 | | Catholic Academy (Formerly St. Francis Academy) in Joliet; her | 9 | | former classmates say she was always "funny and witty" in the | 10 | | classroom and would add one-liners to any conversation; her | 11 | | career started with stand-up comedy and includes film, | 12 | | television, and theater; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, At the beginning of her career in 1997, she | 14 | | appeared in an episode of the NBC comedy series Jenny ; later, | 15 | | she had supporting roles in the films The Kid , Charlie's | 16 | | Angels , Go , The Third Wheel , and The Life of David Gale ; she | 17 | | also did voice work in 3 episodes of Kim Possible , where she | 18 | | played DNAmy; she may be most well known for her role of Sookie | 19 | | St. James, Lorelai Gilmore's best friend on The Gilmore Girls ; | 20 | | and | 21 | | WHEREAS, In the midst of her career, Melissa married her | 22 | | longtime boyfriend, Ben Falcone, who is also an actor; they |
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| 1 | | have 2 daughters, Vivian and Georgette; while pregnant with | 2 | | Vivian, her pregnancy was written into the Gilmore Girls | 3 | | script; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In her most recent work she has played character | 5 | | roles in The Back-Up Plan , Life as We Know It , and the | 6 | | successful and critically lauded film, Bridesmaids ; since | 7 | | 2010, she has played a leading role as Molly Flynn in Mike and | 8 | | Molly , for which she won her Emmy; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Residents in her home town say that Melissa has | 10 | | not forgotten where she came from and has not changed at all; | 11 | | her Emmy acceptance speech mentioned her home town of | 12 | | Plainfield; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we congratulate Melissa McCarthy for receiving the Emmy Award | 16 | | for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series; and be it | 17 | | further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to Melissa McCarthy as a symbol of our respect and | 20 | | esteem.
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