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Ayo Edebiri

Ayo Edebiri

Acting1995Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊ əˈdɛbəri/ Eye-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee; born October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, and television writer. Since 2022, she has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the episode "Napkins".

Edebiri has been a writer and voice actor on Big Mouth since 2020 and was a writer for the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows in 2022. In 2023, she voiced roles in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and starred in the Theater Camp and Bottoms comedies. She had another voice role in Inside Out 2 (2024).

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Acting History

2026
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Nominee / Presenter1 eps
2025
After the Hunt
as Maggie Resnick
Ella McCay
as Susan
Opus
as Ariel Ecton
I Love LA
TVas Mimi Rush2 eps
Sherri
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TVas Self - Actress and Comedian1 eps
2024
Omni Loop
as Paula
Inside Out 2
as Envy (voice)
Everybody Still Hates Chris
TVas Roxanne (voice)
2023
Bottoms
as Josie
Theater Camp
as Janet Walch
We Lost Our Human
as Ham / Future Ham / Hamling (voice)
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
TVas VR Shopping Spree Host1 eps
Clone High
TVas Harriet Tubman (voice)20 eps
Black Mirror
TVas Sandy1 eps
Kiff
TVas Professor Totsy (voice)1 eps
Abbott Elementary
TVas Ayesha2 eps
History of the World: Part II
TVas Runaway Slave1 eps
Mulligan
TVas General Scarpaccio / Jayson Moody (voice)14 eps
Mulligan
TVCo-Producer20 eps
Mulligan
TVWriter1 eps
2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TVas Self1 eps
The Bear
TVas Sydney Adamu38 eps
Craig of the Creek
TVStory1 eps
The Bear
TVWriter
The Bear
TVDirector
The Bear
TVCo-Executive Producer
2021
As of Yet
as Khadijah
How It Ends
as Stand Up
Cicada
as Nikki
Dickinson
TVas Hattie6 eps
2020
Shithouse
as Emily (uncredited)
Big Mouth
TVas Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice) / Missy Foreman-Greenwald / Mosaic Missy (voice)31 eps
2019
What We Do in the Shadows
TVConsulting Producer
Dickinson
TVStaff Writer
Dickinson
TVWriter
2003
1996
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host / Self

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/3/1995(30 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA