Kimmy Schmidt  Kimberly Cougar Schmidt is the title character on the Netflix original series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt". Kimmy Schmidt was born in Durnsville, Indiana, around 1984 to 17-year-old Lori-Ann Schmidt. According to the episode "Kimmy Goes to Her Happy Place!", Kimmy is unsure who her father is (but is aware that his name starts with an "S" or a "5"), as he had sex with her mother in the bathroom of a Ruby Tuesday. Also, revealed in the same episode, she was born on a rollercoaster during a tornado warning. At the age of 14, Kimmy was kidnapped by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (portrayed by Jon Hamm) along with three other women – Donna Maria Nuñez (Sol Miranda), Cyndee Pokorny (Sara Chase), and Gretchen Chalker (Lauren Adams). They were placed in a bunker near Durnsville and were told that the apocalypse had come and that everyone else was dead. At some point, Kimmy found a rat from one of the vents, and realized the reverend was lying to them. When she confronted him, he told her she could send out Cyndee alone if she was so sure, and Kimmy, who was very attached to Cyndee, ended up deciding against it at the last moment. After fifteen years in the bunker, the women were found and released, and made famous in the media as the "Indiana Mole Women", but Kimmy moved to New York City and went by the name "Kimmy Smith" to avoid the attention. She eventually arrived at an apartment building, and shared an apartment with Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) under landlady Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane), and proceeds to get a job working for Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowski). Here she meets the Voorhees family's tutor Charles (Andy Ridings), with whom she has an awkward almost relationship, but it is very brief. Jacqueline sets her up on a date with Grant (John McMartin), a wealthy (and elderly) man who was a veteran of World War II and is now losing his mind from war trauma. That relationship however, doesn't work out either. She joins a GED class in hopes of finishing her education, but it doesn't work out very well; so, she begins tutoring with one of the other adults in the class, immigrant Dong Nguyen (Ki Hong Lee), who falls in love with her.