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

Christy Knowings, an histrion champion known for the Nickelodeon sketch drama bid “All That,” has died. She was 46.

According to her father, Charles Dunn, Knowings died Tuesday successful Long Beach aft she suffered a terrible asthma onslaught connected Aug. 7 and went into cardiac arrest. The histrion had been connected beingness enactment for respective days.

Knowings joined Nickelodeon’s sketch amusement for kids and teens, “All That,” successful 1997 erstwhile she was a teen trying to interruption 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 clump of antithetic characters, and past a week aft that, producers and writers from ‘All That’ flew retired from Hollywood to travel spot maine successful New York, and that’s each she wrote,” Knowings said during a 2019 interview. “Five minutes later, I was asked if I wanted to determination to California.”

On “All That,” Knowings joined an all-star formed that included Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, Kel Mitchell, Nick Cannon and Gabriel Iglesias, to sanction a few. She stayed with the sketch amusement for 3 seasons, departing successful 2000.

Following “All That,” she appeared connected “Sesame Street” crossed 3 episodes successful twin-themed sketches.

“Sesame Street” posted a tribute for the histrion connected societal media, writing, “Sesame Workshop mourns the nonaccomplishment of Christy Knowings, who appeared connected Sesame Street alongside her brother, formed subordinate Chris Knowings. Our deepest condolences spell retired to Chris and his family.”

Christy Lorraine Knowings was calved Feb. 25, 1980, successful the Bronx. She attended Manhattan’s Professional Performing Arts School and started honing her skills arsenic a quality histrion from an aboriginal age.

“I did impersonations, but my happening was truly creating caller characters, and the characters would stem from antithetic dialects,” she told the Pop Culture With Pat podcast.

“I was beauteous bully ... Even if I had a tiny relation playing a justice astatine a subject fair, I would inactive effort and marque that quality basal retired by utilizing a antithetic accent oregon doing thing a small dangerous. Didn’t ever work! But astir of the clip it did.”

In 2019, up of the 25th day of “All That,” Knowings spoke with Bustle astir the mode the amusement was up of its time. The Native American Afro-Latina histrion said the taste nuances brought by the divers formed were celebrated.

“People archer me, particularly Black ‘90s kids who were watching for my seasons, they’re like, ‘We truly paid attraction to you due to the fact that you were the lone Black girl!’ I was determination to correspond them successful a mode and I didn’t adjacent recognize it astatine the clip due to the fact that societal media was not a thing,” she said.

“‘All That’ showcased the unity that we each wanted, needed and inactive request successful a precise humorous way. We brought each different unneurotic successful a precise lighthearted way. With Amanda and I doing ‘Whateverrr!’ you didn’t spot a Black miss and a achromatic girl, you conscionable saw these 2 insane girls who loved the aforesaid guys. We some loved Leonardo DiCaprio and we some loved Kobe Bryant! I deliberation we pushed a batch of boundaries.”

Knowings’ “All That” castmates posted tributes to her connected societal media.

Thompson, present a “Saturday Night Live” star, wrote alongside a photograph of Knowings, “Man this 1 deed hard!!! Rest good Christy!!! Never could person imagined this day!! Sending truthful overmuch emotion to her family!! She was a existent 1 and 1 of the funniest radical retired here!!! Gonna miss you buddy!!!”

Alisa Reyes wrote that Christy was “not lone an immensely talented actress, singer, and artist, but she was besides a prima seed, a airy worker, and a existent uplifter of humanity ... Her frequence and vibration are present soaring into the ethers, and I tin already consciousness her magic sprinkling upon america similar stardust.”

Lisa Foiles posted a tribute connected Facebook, writing, “It doesn’t consciousness just erstwhile we suffer 1 of our own. Christy was mesmerizing to maine connected ‘All That.’ I studied her facial expressions, her committedness to a bit, her endowment for drama mode beyond her years. I dreamed of being successful her shoes — and adjacent erstwhile I joined the show, I knew they were impossibly large shoes to fill. She was a comedic icon to me, and erstwhile I yet got to conscionable her, her kindness matched her talent. Take immoderate clip to fto her marque you laughter today. RIP Christy Knowings.”

Knowings is survived by her father, duplicate brother, parent Rénee Knowings Dunn and siblings Charles Dunn Jr., Ashley Dunn Ledger, Yavonka Vega, Tamea Dunn and Lee Elder.