'The Office' Stars Had a Sweet Reunion at the Actor Awards
'The Office' Stars Had a Sweet Reunion at the Actor Awards
Alyssa BaileyMon, March 2, 2026 at 2:32 AM UTC
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The Ladies of The Office Reunite at Actor Awards Valerie Macon - Getty Images
The Actor Awards had another surprise cast reunion onstage this year, featuring the ladies of The Office.
Mindy Kaling, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, and Ellie Kemper all presented together.
They presented the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series to The Studio.
The Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, are known for organizing cast reunions onstage with its presenters, be it The Devil Wears Prada’s Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, and Emily Blunt in 2024 or Gossip Girl’s Kristen Bell and Leighton Meester in 2025. This year, the ceremony tapped the main ladies of The Office, Mindy Kaling, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, and Ellie Kemper, to take the stage together. The group brought back their characters’ dynamics as they presented the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, which went to The Studio.
The actresses reminisced about the days when sitcoms had 22 episodes in a season. “You didn’t plan a season around a pregnancy,” Kemper said. “Yeah, you just gave birth on camera and named the baby after a grip,” Kaling added.
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Matt Winkelmeyer - Getty Images
Kinsey and Fischer host the Office Ladies podcast, where they rewatch episodes of the hit sitcom. Kaling, meanwhile, reflected on what it has been like to see younger generations discover the show in an interview with Variety last February:
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“That’s been really lovely to see,” she said. “Between my books and my TV shows, I feel like a lot of the people who are interested in what I have to say are young women—young women of color and women my age. What’s so great about The Office is that it includes those people, but it has a very different fan base in terms of who’s coming up to me at the airport. A 15-year-old boy will be like, ‘Hey, it’s Kelly from The Office!’ They just love the show, and it’s so pure.”
“When I started out, the first thought of what I wanted to write for was a story about ambitious women, living in cities with disposable income,” she continued. “But instead, I was writing for these 12 people in an office in Scranton, PA. You know that old saying, ‘You don’t always get what you want, but you get what you need.’ That is what I needed, to learn how to write in the voices of people completely different than me.”
She recalled being a 24-year-old writer on the show, saying, “As I get older, I realize how lucky I was with that job. It was my first job from doing off-off-Broadway theater. I wasn’t in the WGA; I didn’t have health insurance. So there was just the basic needs that needed to be met that would have thrilled me. But then the idea that I would work on the show for eight years and do this intensive [deep dive] in comedy writing and comedy acting, and be around Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, B.J. Novak, and Mike Schur and just learn from them for so many years…my bar was so low at that time that it just really feels like such incredible luck. It was learning how to write and acting with really wonderful people that I’m still friends with. It completely set up my career.”
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
