Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress, comedian and singer. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. In 2007, Rudolph appeared in various films, including Grown Ups and Bridesmaids. She has also lent her voice to the animated films Shrek the Third, Big Hero 6, The Angry Birds Movie and its 2019 sequel, The Emoji Movie.
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Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress, comedian and singer. She first gained prominence in the mid-1990s as a member of the alternative rock band The Rentals before joining The Groundlings improv troupe later in the decade. In 2000, Rudolph became a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. In 2007, Rudolph appeared in various films, including Grown Ups and Bridesmaids. She has also lent her voice to the animated films Shrek the Third, Big Hero 6, The Angry Birds Movie and its 2019 sequel, The Emoji Movie. In addition to her film appearances, Rudolph starred as Ava Alexander in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, and co-hosted her own variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short. She also appeared in the Netflix animated sitcom Big Mouth, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Fox animated sitcom Bless the Harts. In 2008, she appeared in a sketch on Oprah as Oprah Winfrey speaking on behalf of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics.
For her portrayal of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday night Live, Rudolph won the PrimetimeEmmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Rudolph’s musical talents were frequently employed on Saturday Nightlive. She sang as Beyoncé Knowles in the Prince Show sketches, as the \”Space Creature\” in the Gays in Space sketches, except for the one on the season 31 episode hosted by Peter Sarsgaard, because it aired around the time Rudolph was on maternity leave. She appeared in two sketches in the 2008 Christmas episode, where she reprised her role in the Bronx Beat, with Amy Poehler and Fred Armisen. Her final episode was on November 3, 2007, with host Brian Williams and musical guest Feist, in a play about a duet between Michelle Obama and Kenan Thompson about Amyhler’s newborn newborn.
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