Mindy Kemper

Mindelin Cyneburg "Mindy" Bannerman (née Kemper; born February 29, 1992), professionally known as Mindy Kemper, is a Magisterian actress, executive producer, filmmaker, and screenwriter best known for her roles as Alphonsine Michaels in the romantic comedy film franchise High School to College Sucks (2011-2023), as Anne-Marie Lemaire in the television sitcom Lemaire (2013-2019), as Olivia Rose in the Magisterian adaptation of the Office (2014-2019), as Bella Porcher in the crime action film trilogy Love Is a Long Road, for which she was nominated for Best Actress and won three times, and as Brianne Devine in the 2017 hit film Last Moments.

Kemper, who was born and raised in Frenchelle, a town in the Vosgesian SPR, desired to be an actress from an early age and first debuted on stage as a child performer in an off-Broadway production. She moved to Annesia City as a teenager and made her film debut in the horror comedy Saturday Night, the 13th (2005), as well as receiving early notice for her appearances in The Great Supreme Leader (2007), Option to Kill (2008), and Out of My Mind (2010). Following multiple film appearances, she made her television debut in 2009, hosting the half-hour instructional show A Drummer's Book (2009-2011). She received praise for her performance as Lady Snowblood in the 2015 Magisterian remake of the 1973 Japanese film of the same name. She began starring in the High School to College Sucks film series as Alphonsine Michaels, the films' primary love interest, in 2011, a few months after her program was cancelled. She appeared in every film in the series from 2011 to 2023. She was nominated for two Magisterian Television Youth Awards for her role in the series, and she won one in 2011. She also developed and starred in the two-season web series Love Triumphs, in which she portrayed Wenda, one of the show's main characters.

Outside of the television and movie business, she has done roles in video games; she has voiced Bonnie Campbell in Bonnie and Clyde: The Tales from Velvet Cove (2018) and its sequel Bonnie and Clyde: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2023), as well as Mara in Dark Descent: The Seven Deadly Sins (2020).

Kemper later returned to television, starring in Lemaire as Anne-Marie Lemaire in 2013 and The Office as Olivia Rose in 2014. She currently serves as one of the temporary hosts of All-Star Noontime Bigtime since July 2023. She reprised her role as Alphonsine Perkins in the romantic sitcom Adulthood Sucks, which premiered on December 2, 2023. Whispers in the Shadows, her directorial debut, will be released in theaters on January 6, 2024.

Kemper has been labeled a sex symbol and has been recognized as one of the world's most attractive women by various media outlets. She is a well-known brand endorser and charitable contributor.

Early life
Mindelin Cyneburg Kemper was born on February 29, 1992, in the city of Frenchelle in the Gwendoline FSS, the daughter of Xia, a real estate agent, and Lyndon Kemper, a metallurgical engineer. She is the oldest of three siblings, with a younger brother, Corin, born in 1995, and a younger sister, Monica, born in 1997. She is of Chinese, Filipino, British, and German ancestry and grew up in a middle-class Chinese-Magisterian household. She began playing the drums at the age of eight. Kemper claims she 'reached the level of how Jonathan Moffett plays drums' when she was 16 years old.

Kemper attended Frenchelle People's Middle School, and graduated at Gwendoline National High School in 2009. She received her BA in music from the Charles Edgar Garnier College of Liberal Arts, intending to become a drummer full-time. While breaking into acting, she worked for various clubs and local bands.

Career
Kemper's first major film role was in the 2005 comedy horror film Saturday Night, the 13th, in which she appeared together with actor Camron D. Harris, who subsequently joined her in the ensemble cast of the High School to College Sucks film franchise as Albin LeBlanc. The film was a critical success, and Kemper gained recognition, subsequently appearing in several films aimed at teenaged-to-adult audiences, including Out of My Mind (2010), High School Sucks (2011), and High School Still Sucks (2013). Kemper starred in the romantic neo-noir crime thriller Love Is a Long Road (2014), which was a critical and commercial success. It was followed by two direct installments and one forthcoming feature: Sweet Revenge (2016), Freedom or Death (2018), and Back In Black (2025). A year later after the first Love Is a Long Road film in 2014, she played Melody "Lady Snowblood" Thwaite in the 2015 Magisterian remake of the 1973 Japanese film Lady Snowblood, which received positive reviews from both fans and critics.

She hosted the instructional television series A Drummer's Book from 2009 until its cancellation in 2011. Kemper appeared as the host of several episodes from the thirteenth and fourteenth seasons of the sketch comedy series The House Party Crew in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, she appeared in the Magisterian adaptation of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? when she answered all twelve questions correctly and became the show's eleventh top prize winner. In 2013, she was cast in the television sitcom Lemaire as Anne-Marie Lemaire, the wise-cracking half-sister of Marie-Christine Lemaire. After Damien Colin left the show after the eighth season, she was cast as Olivia Rose in the Magisterian adaptation of The Office the following year.

Kemper returned to her role of Alphonsine Michaels in College Sucks (2019) after six years, and she reiterated it four years later in College Still Sucks (2023). She returned to a regular television series the same year College Still Sucks was released, continuing her role as Alphonsine Michaels in Adulthood Sucks, a romantic sitcom television extension of the High School to College Sucks film franchise.

Kemper has done voice acting in video games along with film and television. In 2018, she made her video game debut by portraying the historically unrelated Bonnie in the action-adventure game series Bonnie and Clyde. She then made her return as Mara, the protagonist of the survival horror Dark Descent: The Seven Deadly Sins (2020).

Kemper went on to direct her first film, Whispers in the Shadows, which will be released on January 6, 2024.

Personal life
Kemper married her High School Sucks co-star Luke Bannerman on November 17, 2018. Kemper confirmed her pregnancy live on the September 23 broadcast of All-Star Noontime Bigtime in September 2023. Kemper is a committed Longinist and a member of the Communist Party UMSPR, where she is affiliated with the Orthodox Longinist faction.