Ayo Edebiri

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Ayo Edebiri
Born (1995-10-03) October 3, 1995 (age 28)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Medium Television, stand-up
Nationality American
Education New York University (BA)

Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊ əˈdɛbəri/ eye-OH-_-Ə-deb-ƏR-ee;[2] born October 3, 1995) is an American comedian, writer, producer and actress. She appeared on Comedy Central's Up Next and co-hosts the podcast Iconography with Olivia Craighead. Edebiri is best known as a voice actor on Big Mouth (2020–present) and a main cast member on The Bear (2022–present).[3][4]

Early life and education

Edebiri was born in Boston and raised in a religious Pentecostal household.[5] Her mother emigrated from Barbados and her father emigrated from Nigeria.[6][7] She first became interested in comedy through eighth grade drama class, after which she joined the improv club at Boston Latin School.[5]

Edebiri attended New York University, where she received her bachelor's degree in teaching.[6] As a junior in college, she began preparing to pursue a career in comedy and interned at Upright Citizens Brigade.[6][7]

Career

Film and Television

Edebiri is a stand-up comedian, and performed a stand-up set on Comedy Central's Up Next.[8][6] Her scripted digital series Ayo and Rachel Are Single began airing on the network in May 2020, which she co-wrote and costarred in with her friend and fellow comedienne Rachel Sennott.[9]

She is a television writer, and wrote for the sole seasons of The Rundown with Robin Thede and NBC's Sunnyside.[3][6] Edebiri joined the writing staff of Big Mouth for the show's fourth season.[10] After Jenny Slate stepped down from voicing the character Missy so the role could be played by a black actress, Edebiri auditioned and was selected as the replacement in August 2020.[3] Her voice acting as the character began at the end of the show's fourth season.[3] Edebiri was a writer and actress in Dickinson's second season on Apple TV+.[4] She acted in a supporting role in the upcoming film adaptation of the Jennifer E. Smith YA novel Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between.[11]

In 2022 Edebiri gained wider prominence as a main cast member on the FX on Hulu comedy series The Bear.[12] She received nominations from the Gotham Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Independent Spirit Awards for her performance as Sydney Adamu, an ambitious young sous chef.[13][14][15]

Her upcoming projects include co-producing and writing for Mulligan, an animated series for Netflix, on January 26, 2023 she joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the 2024 film Thunderbolts in an undisclosed role and voicing the lead role in the animated series We Lost Our Human, also for Netflix.[3]

Other work

Edebiri co-hosts a podcast called Iconography with Olivia Craighead that features interviews with guests in conversation about their shared personal icons.[9][6] The podcast is produced by Forever Dog and the second season was released in 2020.[16]

She has canvassed for the Democratic Socialists of America.[17][18]

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2022 Gotham Independent Film Awards Outstanding Performance in a New Series The Bear Nominated [15]
2023 Critics' Choice Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated [14]
Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series Pending [13]
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series What We Do in the Shadows (for "Private School") Pending [19]
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series The Bear Pending [20]
Writers Guild of America Awards Episodic Comedy What We Do in the Shadows (for "Private School") Pending [21]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2020 Shithouse Emily Uncredited
2020 Cicada Nikki
2021 How It Ends Stand Up
2021 As of Yet Khadijah
2022 Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between Stella
2023 Theater Camp Janet
Bottoms Post-production
2024 Thunderbolts TBA Pre-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Defectives Stacey Episode: "Public Display of Affection"
2020–present Bigtop Burger Frances (voice) Recurring role
2020–present Big Mouth Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice) Main role; also writer[3]
2021 Dickinson Hattie 6 episodes; also staff writer[11]
2021 The Premise Eve Stone Episode: "Social Justice Sex Tape"
2022–present The Bear Sydney Adamu Main role[12]
2022 What We Do In the Shadows N/A Writer[21]
2023 Abbott Elementary Ayesha Teagues Recurring role[22]

References

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