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Amy Poehler Biography
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| Name : | Amy Poehler |
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Profession :
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Actress
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Birth Details :
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born September 16, 1971 in Burlington, Massachusetts
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Height :
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5' 2" (1.57 m)
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Nickname :
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Cool Cat Amy Crazy Amy
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Spouse :
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Will Arnett (29 August 2003 - present)
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Amy Poehler Trivia
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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 Lavinge, Sharon Osbourne, Julia Roberts, and Tonya Harding on Saturday Night Live.
- Lives in TriBeCa
- She's succeeded Jimmy Fallon (who left after season 29) as Tina Fey's co- anchor of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update sketch and making it the first all-female team beginning on the 30th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live.
- In the 90s she appeared on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' (1993) playing Andy Richter's younger sister who had 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.
- Her husband plays Jason Batemans brother on Arrested Development
- Wife of Will Arnett, GOB on Arrested Development. She has a recurring role on the show as GOB's "accidental" wife.
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Amy Poehler Detailed Biography
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Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actress. She currently stars on Saturday Night Live, where she gives impressions of Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Ripa, Madonna, Avril Lavigne and Michael Jackson. She was promoted from featured player to full cast member during her first season on SNL, and is only the third person (the first two were Harry Shearer and Eddie Murphy) to earn this distinction.
Amy Poehler on Weekend Update
Beginning with the 2004-2005 season, she coanchors Weekend Update with Tina Fey, replacing outgoing cast member Jimmy Fallon. In a TV Guide interview, Fey said that with Poehler coanchoring, there now is "double the sexual tension."
A 1993 Boston College graduate, she was a key member of America's oldest collegiate improv comedy troupe, My Mother's Fleabag. Poehler has appeared in films such as Wet Hot American Summer, Mean Girls, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and Envy. In the past, she often appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Andy Richter's little sister, and as a recurring character in two episodes of the college "dramedy" Undeclared.
Lindsay Lohan and Amy Poehler in a skit from a 2004 episode of SNL
She 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 and a performer of longform improv most Sunday evenings at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, that developed from the Comedy Central series.
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 is set to appear in the film Southland Tales in 2006.
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