Something in the TV atmosphere shifted when Sabrina Impacciatore ’s Valentina took one look at Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus season two . After Coolidge’s Tanya asks the hotel manager to “guess who I am,” Impacciatore improvised an instantly classic response—“Peppa Pig”—and proved herself able to spar with the show’s most beloved cast member. She got a chance to show off even more in The Paper , the Office spin-off that debuted in September. Domhnall Gleeson plays the idealistic new editor of the Toledo Truth Teller, while Impacciatore is conniving managing editor Esmeralda Grand—a former dating-show contestant who devotes her days to writing clickbait and scheming to grab power.

It is not lost on Impacciatore, now 57, that her two most famous characters echo on

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