The Skinny follows feminist wannabe YouTube-comedy star Jessie as she struggles to live, love, and...get over her bulimia. On a mission to save the world and get rid of her love handles, Jessie demands honesty from everyone but herself. Meet the cast of a new kind of dark comedy, for those who know the most beautiful moments in life aren't always so pretty.
Jill Soloway
Executive Producer
Jill Soloway is also the creator and showrunner of Transparent, which recently won two Golden Globes and five Emmys, including one for her directing. She won the 2013 Directing Award at Sundance for her first feature, Afternoon Delight. She co-created theatrical experiences The Real Live Brady Bunch, The Miss Vagina Pageant, Hollywood Hellhouse, and Sit and Spin and co-founded community organization East Side Jews. She is the author of the memoir Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants and the upcoming memoir, Would You Still Love Me If. Recently, she co-founded Wifey TV, a web content platform focused on the female gaze.
Jessie Kahnweiler (Jessie)
Creator/Writer/Director/Executive Producer
Jessie Kahnweiler can’t afford therapy, so she makes films. Her work has been featured on CNN, TMZ, People, New York Magazine, Mashable, Buzzfeed, Elle, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, IndieWIRE, LA Weekly, The Huffington Post, and The Independent.
For her thesis film at University of Redlands, Little America, she hitchhiked across the country to explore the world of America’s truck drivers. After getting dumped, Jessie wrote and co-directed the comedic short Baby Love, co-starring alongside Anchorman’s David Koechner. Jessie was selected for the 6 Points Artist Fellowship, which inspired her comedic web series entitled Dude, Where’s my Chutzpah? Her short Meet my Rapist, a dark comedy about running into her rapist at the farmers market, debuted at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival and inspired her live show The Rape Girl.
Illeana Douglas (Jacqueline)
Executive Producer
Award-winning actress Illeana Douglas first came to prominence, as Matt Dillon’s suspicious sister in Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, for which she was a New York Film Critics award nominee. She’s had memorable performances in Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Alive, Grace of My Heart, Picture Perfect, and Ghost World. Current films include She's Funny that Way, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and Growth Spurt directed by Kevin Pollak. Illeana received an Emmy nomination for her work as Angela on Six Feet Under. She’s had recurring roles on Ugly Betty, Entourage, Chasing Life, and Welcome to Sweden.
Illeana is an accomplished writer/producer having created pilots Confessions of a Movie Lover for the IFC Network, Illeanarama for the Oxygen Network, and Celebrity Garage Sale for the A&E Network. She created the multi-award-winning web series Easy to Assemble for Ikea, as well as executive produced films Life Without Dick, Kingdom Come, and Chez Upshaw.
Ryan Pinkston (Stuart)
Ryan is a series lead in the David Kohan and Max Mutchnick show Clipped for TBS. Ryan has been a series regular on Tower Prep, Quintuplets, and Punk’d. In addition, he's booked lead roles in the independent films Undrafted and Case #13, and has appeared in Bad Santa, Soul Plane, Full Of It, College, and Spy Kids 3D. He has guest starred on Ben & Kate, House of Lies, Party Down, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, The Defenders, and Veronica Mars.
Spencer Hill (Cole)
Hill has been a successful commercial actor and model for the past 12 years, appearing in several supporting television and movie roles, including CSI: NY, Knight Rider, Criminal Minds, and most recently True Blood. In 2013, he started a clothing line, Herald.Hill, after years of struggling as an actor.
He appears in several episodes of the hit Yahoo Originals Series The Flip Side and in the last two years alone has shot commercials for Apple, Dockers, Cadillac, Mercedes, Porsche, and Nissan, along with print campaigns for Ford, BMW, Chevy, and most recently is set to be one of the faces of Aveda’s men’s hair grooming line in 2016.
Sadie Calvano (Sadie)
California native Calvano began performing in musical theater at the young age of 7, and her love for acting grew from there. Her recent theatrical roles include Carrie in Carrie the Musical and Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
Calvano’s professional career began with a guest appearance in the action parody Eagleheart starring Chris Elliott. She appeared in a co-starring role on NCIS and received a YAA best actress nomination for it. The talented actress received a second YAA nomination for the Disney TV show Kickin’ It, followed by a guest role in Disney’s Crash and Bernstein. Sadie made her big screen debut in 2011 as Leonardo DiCaprio's niece in the Clint Eastwood bio-epic J. Edgar. She returned to television with roles in the movies Family Album and Village People before appearing on ABC Family’s Melissa and Joey. Sadie landed her breakout role on the CBS comedy Mom; she later won a Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Female Actor-Rising Star in 2015 for the role.
Megan Ferguson (Brie)
Megan Ferguson most recently starred opposite Billy Crystal and Josh Gad in the FX comedy The Comedian. Prior to the series, Megan appeared on Boardwalk Empire, Almost Human, Battle Creek, The League, and recurred on Mad Men. She will next star alongside Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez in The Fundamentals of Caring, which is the closing night film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. She recently wrapped James Franco’s The Disaster Artist and Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s Bad Moms. Originally from Thomasville, GA, Ferguson graduated from Yale University and began her acting career in New York Theater.
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