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Amy Poehler Profile |
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Birth Date: September 16, 1971
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Birth Place: Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
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Birth Name: Amy Poehler
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Height: 5'2"
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Biography |
Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971 in Burlington,
Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actress. She
currently stars on Saturday Night Live, where she has
portrayed Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Ripa, Madonna, Avril
Lavigne, Sharon Stone, Nancy Grace and Michael Jackson. She
was promoted from featured player to full cast member during
her first season on SNL, the third person ever (after Harry
Shearer and Eddie Murphy) to earn this distinction.
Beginning with the 2004-2005 season, she co-anchored Weekend
Update with Tina Fey, replacing the newly departed Jimmy
Fallon. In a TV Guide interview, Fey said that with Poehler
co-anchoring, there now is "double the sexual tension." Fey
left after the 2005-2006 season, replaced by Seth Meyers.
A 1993 graduate of Boston College, Poehler was a key member
of America's oldest collegiate improv comedy troupe, My
Mother's Fleabag. She has appeared in films such as Wet Hot
American Summer, Mean Girls, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and
Envy as well as lending her voice to the character Snow
White in the Shrek sequels. In the past, she often appeared
on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Andy Richter's little
sister Stacy, and as a recurring character in two episodes
of the college dramedy Undeclared.
Poehler performed at Second City Chicago and the
ImprovOlympic, and is a disciple of longform improv comic
innovator Del Close. She was one of the four players on
Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade and is a co-owner
of at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. She
can also be seen most Sundays at the theatre in the infamous
ASSSSCAT, which has been performed for more than 10 years.
Poehler is married to Will Arnett, of the FOX comedy
Arrested Development, and had recurring roles in the series
as the wife of Arnett's character GOB. She appears in the
film Southland Tales, which premiered on May 21, 2006 at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival, and is set to appear in the 2007
film Mr. Woodcock alongside Seann William Scott and Billy
Bob Thornton. She has created an upcoming animated series
for Nickelodeon called Mighty B, about a "sweet,
merit-badge-obsessed girl scout," to which she lends her
vocal talents. |
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Other
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Attended Boston College
Member of "The Upright Citizens Brigade" comedy troupe.
Was promoted from featured player to full cast member on
"Saturday Night Live" (1975) in the middle of her first year
on the show (2001-2002). The only other SNL cast member to
have this distinction is Eddie Murphy during the 1980-1981
season.
Has given impressions of Kelly Ripa, Madonna, Avril Lavigne,
Sharon Osbourne, Julia Roberts and Tonya Harding on
"Saturday Night Live" (1975).
Lives in TriBeCa
She's succeeded Jimmy Fallon (who left after season 29) as
Tina Fey's co-anchor of "Saturday Night Live" (1975)'s
Weekend Update sketch and making it the first all-female
team beginning on the 30th season of NBC's "Saturday Night
Live" (1975).
In the 90s, she appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
(1993) playing Andy Richter's younger sister, who had a
psychotic crush on Conan.
Has the rare distinction of being in two movies that opened
on the same day in the U.S. - Mean Girls (2004) and Envy
(2004) (April 30, 2004).
Favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox.
Wife of Will Arnett, GOB on "Arrested Development" (2003).
She has a recurring role on the show as GOB's "accidental"
wife.
She is an Alumni from the Famous Improv Olympic along with
actors Vince Vaughn, late Chris Farley, Ossie Beck, Tina
Fey, Mike Myers and Adam McKay.
Close friends with fellow (now former) "Saturday Night Live"
(1975) cast member, Tina Fey.
Is only five years older than Rachel McAdams, who plays her
daughter in Mean Girls (2004). |
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