The Groundlings: Members - American comedy



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Will Ferrell

John William "Will" Ferrell (pronounced /ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. Ferrell first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films...

Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from...

Julia Sweeney

Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian and author best known for her Saturday Night Live career and autobiographical solo shows. Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Jeri, a homemaker, and...

Paul Reubens

Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as...

Chris Parnell

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967) is an American comic actor best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006 and currently for his recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy...

Laraine Newman

Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American comedienne and actress. Newman was born on March 2, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of a Jewish cattle rancher from Arizona. Newman attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly...

Pat Morita

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005) was an American actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on Happy Days and as Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for...

Jon Lovitz

Jonathan "Jon" Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is best known for serving as a cast member of Saturday Night Live between 1985 to 1990 and voicing Jay Sherman on The Critic. Lovitz was born in Los Angeles,...

Lisa Kudrow

Lisa V. Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an American actress, best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom Friends. Throughout her career she has received many accolades for her work in film and television including an Emmy Award...

Adam Carolla

Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) is an American radio and television host, comedian and actor. He is the host of The Adam Carolla Podcast, before which he hosted a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles and syndicated by CBS Radio...

Cecily Adams

Cecily April Adams (February 6, 1958 – March 3, 2004) was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter of comic actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis, and the sister of actress/TV executive Stacey Adams. She was married to actor/writer Jim...

Joey Arias

Joey Arias is a New York City based performance artist, cabaret singer, and drag artist. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on October 3, 1949, he was six when he moved with his family to Los Angeles. After singing with the rock band "Purlie" on...

Patrick Bristow

Patrick Bristow (born September 26, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. Perhaps most recognizable for his bright red hair and for his role as Peter, the gay best-friend of Ellen Morgan on the series Ellen, Patrick is currently a cast member of...

John Cervenka

John Cervenka (born September 30, 1959, in Pasadena, California) is an American comedian and voice over actor, who replaced Johnny Gilbert as the third permanent announcer on Love Connection. In the late 1990s, he hosted, and produced, Burt Luddin's...

Jennifer Coolidge

Jennifer Coolidge (born August 28, 1961) is an American actress best known for playing "Stifler's mom," the consummate "MILF", in the film American Pie (1999), Hilary Duff's stepmother in A Cinderella Story (2004), Paulette, the manicurist in...

Mikey Day

Michael William "Mikey" Day (born March 20, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and improvisational performer. Day was born in Orange County, California. He attended and graduated from El Modena High School in 1998, where he was deeply involved in...

Christian Duguay

Christian Duguay (born January 3, 1970) is an American comic actor. Duguay is most notable as one of the recurring cast of sketch comedy series MADtv. Christian Duguay was born on January 3, 1970 in Stanford, California. He grew up in Carefree,...

Will Forte

Orville Willis Forte IV, best known as Will Forte (born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and comedian. Forte was born in Alameda County, California, the son of Patricia C. (née Stivers) and Orville Willis Forte III. He was raised in...

Daniele Gaither

Daniele Gaither (born September 6, 1970) is an American comic actress. Gaither is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv. Daniele Gaither was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. As a child, Gaither...

Ana Gasteyer

Ana Kristina Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967) is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for her comedic roles when she was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002. Gasteyer was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of...

Kathy Griffin

Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, media personality, and LGBT rights advocate. A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity", Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of...

Rachael Harris

Rachael Elaine Harris (born January 12, 1968) is an American actress and comedienne. Rachael Harris was born in Worthington, Ohio. She graduated from Worthington High School (renamed Thomas Worthington High School) and went on to graduate from...

Cheryl Hines

Cheryl Hines (born September 21, 1965) is an American actress and television director, best known for her role as Larry David's wife on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 2009 she made her directorial debut at the Tribeca Film Festival with Serious...

Alex Kapp Horner

Alex Kapp Horner (Alexandra Horner) (born December 5, 1969) is an American actress who currently co-stars as Lindsay on the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. She began her career Los Angeles as a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe...

Chris Kattan

Christopher Lee "Chris" Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American actor/comedian, best known for his work on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His father, Kip King (né Jerome C. Kattan), is...

Phil LaMarr

Phillip "Phil" LaMarr (born January 24, 1967) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. One of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv, he is also known for his voice acting on the animated series Futurama, Static Shock,...

Steve Little

Steve Little is a beginning voice actor for the show Camp Lazlo. Little performed in The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Joe Murray encountered Little and asked Little if he was interested in being a voice actor and decided that Little matched the "Dung...

Tress MacNeille

Tress MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Tiny Toon Adventures, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Animaniacs and...

Tim Bagley

Timothy Hugh "Tim" Bagley (born August 17, 1957) is an American character actor who has appeared in numerous films and television programs. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role on the TV series, Will & Grace. Bagley was born in...

Edie McClurg

Edie McClurg (born July 23, 1951) is an American character actress. She is known for her perky Upper Midwestern accent. McClurg began her career with a role in the 1976 Brian De Palma horror film Carrie as Helen Shyres, one of Carrie's classmates....

Michael McDonald

Michael James McDonald (born December 31, 1964) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director, best known for starring in the sketch comedy show MADtv. McDonald joined the show during the fourth season (1998) and remained in the cast until...

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Wendi McLendon-Covey (born October 10, 1969) is an American actress and comedienne. She is best known for her role as Deputy Clementine Johnson on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. McLendon-Covey is known for her role as Deputy Clementine Johnson...

Cheri Oteri

Cheri Oteri (born September 19, 1962) is an American comic actress, best known for her roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000. Oteri was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. She grew up with three siblings in Upper Darby. She...

Michael Hitchcock

Michael Hitchcock (born July 28, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and television producer. As an actor, he has appeared in several of Christopher Guest's critically-acclaimed movies, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in...

Cassandra Peterson

Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing...

Maya Rudolph

Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and comedian, known as a former cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live. She is the daughter of late soul singer Minnie Riperton (Lovin' You) and song writer/music producer Richard...

Kevin Ruf

Kevin Ruf (born December 7, 1961) is an American actor. He recently starred in the Comedy Central show Halfway Home as Kenny Carlyle, the house supervisor of a halfway house. He was the newsman in That Was The Week That Was on ABC's Primetime Live ....