Checking in with KEKE PALMER
Keke Palmer has been successful in revising her television career, and she now has a Primetime Emmy to prove it.
After briefly being a talk show host by joining Michael Strahan and Sara Haines in ABC’s now-defunct “GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke,” the actress is now fronting a game show — a revival of one of the most popular in TV history, and the one that earned her the Emmy recently. Palmer returns to preside over the Jimmy Fallon-produced “Password” when it starts its second season on NBC, Tuesday, March 12 (also streaming the next day on Peacock).
Fallon participates as one of the celebrities who either provide or respond to their playing partners’ clues to guess secret passwords. Among other personalities slated for the new episodes are Fallon’s ABC late-night rival Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”), “Gilmore Girls” and “Parenthood” alum Lauren Graham, “America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel, musician Chance the Rapper, skiing icon Lindsey Vonn and some returnees from Season 1, including singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor and actor-comedian Joel McHale (“Animal Control”).
The “Password” Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host was the second one Palmer won, having gotten her first a year before for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for Facebook Watch’s “Keke Palmer’s Turnt Up With the Taylors” (in which she played all of the characters). She’s no stranger to honors in general, having picked up an NAACP Image Award in 2007 for the movie “Akeelah and the Bee,” then four more for the Nickelodeon children’s series “True Jackson, VP” and another for her voice performance in the animated Disney-Pixar film “Lightyear” (2022).
Palmer’s journey into the adult phase of her career also has included stints in MTV’s “Scream: Resurrection” and Fox’s “Star” and “Scream Queens,” plus her hosting of a 2022 episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” that featured SZA as the musical guest. Now, with “Password” a clearly beneficial showcase for her, that journey seems destined to keep progressing before viewers’ eyes for some time. Birthdate: Aug. 26, 1993
Birthplace: Harvey, Ill. Movie credits include: “Under the Boardwalk,” “Lightyear,” “Hustlers,” “Ice Age: Collision Course,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” “Brotherly Love,” “Joyful Noise,” “Shrink,” “The Longshots,” “Cleaner,” “Madea’s Family Reunion,” “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” Other television credits include: “The Afterparty,” “That’s My Jam,” “Human Resources,” “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Legendary,” “Insecure,” “Big Mouth,” “GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke,” “Scream: Resurrection,” “Star,” “Berlin Station,” “Grease: Live,” “Scream Queens,” “The Trip to Bountiful,” “Masters of Sex,” “Just Keke,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Family Guy,” “Key & Peele,” “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” “True Jackson, VP,” “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”