Ep. 576 - Riki Lindhome - Actor, comedian from film Million Dollar Baby and TV Wednesday & Big Bang Theory
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Riki Lindhome is an, actor, comedian and musician whose career spans film, television and music. She got her first major break when Tim Robbins cast her in his hit play Embedded, before making her film debut in Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood. She has since appeared in a wide range of projects, includingas Dr. Valerie Kinbott in Wednesday on Netflix, Knives Out alongside Daniel Craig, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family and Gilmore Girls, as well as films such as The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Alongside her on-screen work, Riki is an accomplished songwriter, writing for series including Scrubs, Duncanville and The Big Bang Theory, and contributing music to films like The LEGO Movie 2, The Addams Family and The SpongeBob Movie. She also earned an Emmy nomination for her song “Frozen Lullaby.” Riki co-created and starred in Comedy Central’s Another Period and the series Garfunkel and Oates, based on her musical comedy duo with Kate Micucci. The duo has amassed over 80 million YouTube views, released three chart-topping comedy albums, and been recognised in the Comedy Hall of Fame. She is currently performing her sell-out show Dead Inside at Soho Theatre in London until the 18th of April .
Riki Lindhome is our guest in episode 576 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Tickets for Riki’s Soho Theatre run available here - https://sohotheatre.com/events/riki-lindhome-dead-inside .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule, four things that |
| 0:21.6 | they really cherish, and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode |
| 0:27.3 | is Ricky Lindholm. Ricky can do almost anything. She's a songwriter, musician, comedian, |
| 0:34.3 | writer and actress, and one of the funniest, most masterful lyricists working today. |
| 0:40.2 | Her first break came when Tim Robbins cast her in his hit play Embedded, |
| 0:44.8 | which played in New York, London and Los Angeles. |
| 0:47.9 | Shortly after, Clint Eastwood cast her in her first film role as Mardell Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby. |
| 0:55.5 | She's appeared as Dr Valerie Kimbot in Wednesday on Netflix, Gilmore Girls, |
| 1:01.4 | the film Knives Out with Daniel Craig, The Big Bang Theory, |
| 1:05.4 | she's the voice of Annabelle in Haunted Hotel, |
| 1:08.1 | was in the hand that rocks the cradle,adle, The Wharf of Snow Hollow, |
| 1:11.6 | and the upcoming movies they listen and stop that train. |
| 1:15.6 | She's written songs for TV shows, including Big Bang Theory, Duncanville, Scrubs, |
| 1:20.7 | and recently wrote all the songs for the new Michelle Obama series on Netflix. |
| 1:25.5 | She's also written songs for animated movies, including Lego 2, the Adams family, and |
| 1:31.0 | the SpongeBob movie. |
| 1:33.0 | She was nominated for an Emmy for her song Frozen Lullaby. |
| 1:37.1 | Ricky co-created and co-starred in two TV shows, another period on Comedy Central, and |
| 1:42.7 | Garfunkel and Oates on IFC, |
| 1:45.2 | starring Ricky's groundbreaking comedy duo |
| 1:47.4 | alongside Kate McCoochee, |
| 1:49.5 | Garfunkel and Oates, as the title suggests, |
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