Christy Knowings, star on Nickelodeon's iconic sketch show All That, dies at 46

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Set us as preferred Christy Knowings, an actor best known for the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series “All That,” has died.She was 46.According to her father, Charles Dunn, Knowings died Tuesday in Long Beach after she suffered a severe asthma attack on Aug.

7 and went into cardiac arrest.The actor had been on life support for several days.

Knowings joined Nickelodeon’s sketch show for kids and teens, “All That,” in 1997 when she was a teenager trying to break into the business.She impressed casting directors with a repertoire of characters and accents she’d been perfecting since she was 4 years old.

“I filmed a bunch of different characters, and then a week after that, producers and writers from ‘All That’ flew out from Hollywood to come see me in New York, and that’s all she wrote,” Knowings said during a 2019 interview.“Five minutes later, I was asked if I wanted to move to California.”On “All That,” Knowings joined an all-star cast that included Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, Kel Mitchell, Nick Cannon and Gabriel Iglesias, to name a few.

She stayed with the sketch show for three seasons, departing in 2000.Following “All That,” she appeared on “Sesame Street” across three episodes in twin-themed sketches.

“Sesame Street” posted a tribute for the actor on social media, writing, “Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Christy Knowings, who appeared on Sesame Street alongside her brother, cast member Chris Knowings.Our deepest condolences go out to Chris and his family.”Christy Lorraine Knowings was born Feb.

25, 1980, in the Bronx.She attended Manhattan’s Professional Performing Arts School and started honing her skills as a character actor from an early age.

“I did impersonations, but my thing was really creating new characters, and the characters would stem from different d...