cecily strong ethnicity
| Cecily Strong | |
|---|---|
 Strong in February 2020 | |
| Birth proper name | Cecily Legler Strong[1] |
| Built-in | (1984-02-08) February 8, 1984 Springfield, Illinois, U.S. |
| Medium | Television, pic |
| Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts (BFA) |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Genres | Improvisational comedy, sketch comedy, blue comedy, satire |
| Subject(south) | American culture, electric current events, popular culture |
| Notable works and roles | Sat Night Alive (2012–2022) |
Cecily Legler Stiff (born February 8, 1984)[2] [3] is an American actress, comedian, producer, author, and singer. Strong is most notable for existence a cast fellow member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Alive from 2012 to 2022.[4] She is likewise the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history.
She has a starring role in the Apple TV+ musical one-act series Schmigadoon! (2021–nowadays), which she also co-produces. Her other roles include voice work on The Awesomes (2013–2015), supporting roles in films like Ghostbusters, The Meddler, and The Female person Brain. She hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2015. Her kickoff book, the memoir This Volition All Be Over Before long, was published in 2021.
For her work on Sat Night Live, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 72nd and 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
Early life [edit]
Potent was born in Springfield, Illinois, and was raised in Oak Park, an inner ring suburb of Chicago.[5] She is the daughter of Penelope and William "Nib" Potent, who worked as an Associated Printing agency chief and equally of 2013 ran his own public relations firm.[2] [v] Penny Legler Strong is a nurse practitioner, having worked extensively at area hospitals. Potent's parents are divorced.[6] Strong grew up doting SNL as a child, reenacting sketches with her friend[7] and watching old SNL commercials on VHS. "I had a tape of the all-time commercials, and I wore it out, every day." She has stated that she was inspired past Phil Hartman.[8]
In a 2021 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Strong said that because her uncle is a Broadway producer, as a child she frequently was able to attend Broadway shows and sometimes go dorsum stage to come across their casts.[9]
She attended Oak Park and River Woods High School until her sophomore year, when she was expelled for bringing marijuana to school. She then attended a private Catholic school until transferring for her senior year to the Chicago University for the Arts, where she graduated in 2002.[vi] [10] She then studied acting at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), graduating in 2006 with a BFA in theatre.[11] [12] [13] After graduating, Potent returned to Chicago where she studied at the 2nd City Conservatory and iO Chicago.
Career [edit]
Strong performed regularly at The Second City and iO Chicago.[6] Stiff performed on a cruise transport with other Second Urban center members for 4 months.[xiv] She appeared at the Chicago Sketch Fest, Chicago Just for Laughs, the New York Sketchfest, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,[12] the Goodman Theater, the Bailiwick Theater, the Mercury Theater, and with the all-female person improv troupe Virgin Daiquiri.[fifteen]
Saturday Nighttime Live [edit]
Strong debuted as a featured thespian on Saturday Night Live on September xv, 2012.[12] [16] [17] The next season, Strong became a repertory player and co-anchored the recurring Weekend Update segment with Seth Meyers, offset with the flavour 39 premiere. Strong later on co-anchored with Colin Jost,[18] and was replaced on Weekend Update with writer Michael Che, beginning with the season 40 premiere in September 2014, partly at her own request to focus on doing sketches as a part of the regular bandage.[19] In 2020, Strong was nominated for her showtime Primetime Emmy honor for Outstanding Supporting Extra In A One-act Serial for her work on the show.[20] She was nominated again in 2021.[21] She was too nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 12th Critics' Option Tv set Awards.[22]
Strong drew praise from abortion-rights supporters, and strong backfire from abortion opponents, subsequently appearing in a comedy skit, "Goober the Clown Who Had An Abortion When She Was 23," during a Weekend Update sketch on the November half-dozen, 2021, episode.[23] The sketch followed U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in two cases relating to the Texas Heartbeat Human activity.[24] Strong later on confirmed on her Instagram account that the sketch referenced her own abortion.[25] Potent followed up on the commentary a yr after, during a Weekend Update sketch on the November 5, 2022, episode, actualization equally "Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Ballgame" before the 2022 midterm elections.
Strong returned to SNL for season 48, and passed former castmate Kate McKinnon as the longest-running female cast fellow member in the evidence'due south history,[26] though she missed the offset three shows of the season reprising her part in the play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in Los Angeles.[27] She returned on the October 29, 2022, episode.[28] Strong passed McKinnon's tape with the December 17, 2022, episode,[29] her last.[30]
Recurring characters [edit]
- The Daughter You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party, an unintelligent, unnamed pseudo-activist,[31]
- Dana, a loud-mouthed, unfriendly retail employee who forth with Niff (played by Bobby Moynihan) always insults her coworkers out of fear of existence fired,
- Donna Fingerneck, The Art of the Encounter and Women in the Workplace co-host with Jodi Cork (played by Kate McKinnon),
- Heather, a ane-dimensional female character from a male-driven comedy,
- Kyra, co-host of The Girlfriends Talk Show, alongside Morgan (played past Aidy Bryant),
- Cathy Anne, the drug-addicted neighbour of Michael Che (usually introduced by Che as "the woman who'due south e'er yelling exterior my window"), who has potent opinions on current events,
- An unnamed blond former porn star-turned-model/commercial actress who hawks elegant items alongside Brecky (played by Vanessa Bayer),
- Gemma, an aspiring British singer with various boyfriends,
- Gracelynn Chisholm, co-host of morning bear witness Right Side of the Bed with her husband Cory (played by Taran Killam),
- Joelle LaRue, one of the 2 French fauna-based video prune evidence presenters, alongside Noelle LeSoup (played past Kate McKinnon),
- Lonnie, 1 of the two unintelligent kids (the other being Josh, played by Mikey Solar day) in the Science Room sketches.[32] [33]
Celebrity impersonations [edit]
- Abby Huntsman
- Alanis Morissette
- Anjelica Huston
- Ariana Grande
- Brooke Baldwin
- Christina Aguilera
- Dianne Feinstein
- Erin Burnett
- Fergie
- Fran Drescher
- Gretchen Whitmer
- Hope Hicks
- Judge Jeanine Pirro
- Julie Andrews
- Kari Lake
- Kate Middleton
- Kendall Jenner
- Khloe Kardashian
- Kimberly Guilfoyle
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Liz Cheney
- Liza Minnelli
- Marie Yovanovitch
- Marion Cotillard
- Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Marsha Blackburn
- Megyn Kelly
- Melania Trump
- Olivia Colman
- Rachel Brosnahan
- Rachel Maddow
- Rosie Perez
- Sarah Koenig
- Sofia Vergara
- Stormy Daniels
- Susan Collins
- Tulsi Gabbard
Other piece of work [edit]
Strong was the featured entertainer at the 2015 White Business firm Correspondents' Association dinner.[34] She took digs at the various news organizations in attendance, politicians of all persuasions, and President Obama. She besides took shots at the U.s. Secret Service, host location the Washington Hilton, Brian Williams, Sarah Koenig and the country of Indiana.[35]
In 2016, she appeared in a commercial for Sometime Navy,[36] alongside other SNL cast members Nasim Pedrad and Jay Pharoah. That year, Strong besides joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as a celebrity correspondent.[37] In 2016, she guest starred every bit Samantha Stevens in TBS's Angie Tribeca and Catherine Hobart in Play tricks's Scream Queens. She has appeared in a series of commercials for Triscuit since 2017. Starting in 2020 she starred in a serial of Prego Spaghetti sauce commercials and in 2022 she was in several Verizon commercials featuring Apple+ TV with several co-stars including Adam Scott and Julian Edelman.
Her first book, a memoir titled This Will All Exist Over Soon, was published on August ten, 2021.[38] [39] The book addresses "the challenges of beginning in a relationship during the pandemic; the pain of losing family and friends; the pivotal events of her life that shaped her; and the importance of gratitude for each passing day."[forty] It developed from an essay she wrote about grieving the loss of her cousin Owen to brain cancer in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic that was get-go published on Vulture.com in 2020.[41] [42]
In 2021, Stiff appeared in HBO Max's six-part comedy serial That Damn Michael Che, featuring SNL castmate Michael Che.[43] The same twelvemonth, she starred in, and was a producer for, Schmigadoon!, a musical parody series on Apple TV+. Developed past Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and produced by SNL's Lorne Michaels, the serial centers effectually a couple (played past Stiff and Keegan-Michael Key) stuck in a 1940s studio musical town until they observe "true love".[44] [45]
It was announced in October 2021 that Stiff would make her New York stage debut at the terminate of the yr in an Off Broadway revival of Jane Wagner's one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which starred Lily Tomlin in 1985.[46] Directed by Leigh Silverman, the show opened at The Shed on January 11, 2022.[47] [48]
Filmography [edit]
Flick [edit]
| Year | Championship | Part | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | How to Sponsor a Uterus | Karen Rigsby | Short pic |
| 2015 | The Statuary | Janice Townsend | |
| 2015 | Irksome Learners | Amber the ex | |
| 2015 | The Meddler | Jillian | |
| 2015 | Staten Isle Summer | Mary Ellen | |
| 2016 | The Boss [49] | Dana Dandridge | |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | Jennifer Lynch | |
| 2018 | The Female Encephalon | Zoe | |
| 2022 | Sparring Partner | Adult female | Short film |
| 2023 | Leo | (voice) | Post-production[50] |
| 2024 | Garfield | (vox) | In production |
Television receiver [edit]
| Twelvemonth | Title | Part | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012–2022 | Saturday Night Live | Herself, Various | 212 episodes |
| 2012 | Sat Dark Live Weekend Update Thursday | Various | two episodes |
| 2013–2015 | The Awesomes | Various Voices | 13 episodes |
| 2015 | White House Correspondents' Dinner | Herself (host) | Featured entertainer |
| 2016 | Angie Tribeca | Samantha Stevens | Episode: "Tribeca'due south Day Off" |
| 2016 | Years of Living Dangerously | Herself | Episode: "A Race Against Time" |
| 2016 | Netflix Presents: The Characters | Herself | Episode: "Natasha Rothwell" |
| 2016 | Superstore | Missy Jones | Episode: "Olympics" |
| 2016 | Maya & Marty | Various | Episode: "Ricky Gervais and Cecily Strong" |
| 2016 | Scream Queens | Catherine Hobart | Episode: "Scream Once more" |
| 2017 | Homo Seeking Woman | CCN Reporter | Episode: "Horse" |
| 2017 | Detroiters | Roz Chunks | Episode: "Dream Cruise" |
| 2017 | Great News | Jessica | Episode: "Night of the Living Screen" |
| 2018 | The Simpsons | Megan Matheson (voice) | Episode: "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" |
| 2018 | Nature Cat | Petunia (voice) | Episode: "Garden Impossible" |
| 2019 | RuPaul'southward Drag Race All Stars | Herself (guest guess) | Episode: "Roast in Peace" |
| 2019 | I Recollect Y'all Should Exit with Tim Robinson | Brenda | Episode: "It's the Cigars You Smoke That Is Going to Give You Cancer" |
| 2020 | Loafy | Becca | Main cast |
| 2021 | That Damn Michael Che | Woman in elevator | Episode: "Policin'" |
| 2021–present | Schmigadoon! | Melissa Gimble | Master bandage; also producer |
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Year | Laurels | Category | Title | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | Nominated | [51] |
| Grammy Awards | Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media | Schmigadoon! | Nominated | [52] | |
| 2021 | Critics' Choice Tv set Awards | All-time Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Saturday Dark Live | Nominated | [22] |
| Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Extra in a Comedy Serial | Nominated | [21] | ||
| 2020 | Nominated | [21] | |||
| Online Picture show & Television Association Awards | Best Female Performance in a Diversity Plan | Nominated | [53] | ||
| 2019 | Nominated | [53] | |||
| 2014 | Online Picture & Television Association Awards | All-time Female Operation in a Fiction Program | Nominated | [53] |
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External links [edit]
- Cecily Strong at IMDb
- Cecily Strong on Instagram
- Official SNL cast biography
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Strong
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