Kat Purgal is an actor, writer, and circuser based in Los Angeles. Born in Northern Virginia, she attended Emerson College in Boston.

Kat has recently been seen on American Horror Story: 1984, Criminal Minds, Superstore and heard on Family Guy & American Dad and seen again as the "smiley girl" in a dozen commercials.

She participated in the Sundance Director’s Lab and was a finalist in the Sundance Episodic Story Lab. Her work has also been featured on Funny Or Die and WhoHaha. She is currently a participant in the selective Women In Film Mentorship Program.

In her spare time, she trains at Cirque School Los Angeles on Aerial Hoop.

She recently became a mom to fraternal twin girls and speaks about her NICU experience below: