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Ayo Edebiri

Ayo Edebiri

Acting1995Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊ əˈdɛbəri/ Eye-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee; born Funmilayo Edebiri, 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).

Acting History

Future
Clarissa
as Young Sally
Prodigies
TVas Didi
Prodigies
TVExecutive Producer
2026
Golden Globe Awards
TVas Self - Nominee / Presenter• 1 eps
2025
Opus
as Ariel Ecton
After the Hunt
as Maggie Resnick
Ella McCay
as Susan
Sherri
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
I Love LA
TVas Mimi Rush• 2 eps
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TVas Self - Actress and Comedian• 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host / Self• 1 eps
2024
Omni Loop
as Paula
Inside Out 2
as Envy (voice)
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TVas April O'Neil (voice)• 12 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TVas Self• 2 eps
Everybody Still Hates Chris
TVas Roxanne (voice)• 2 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TVas Self - Guest• 2 eps
2023
We Lost Our Human
as Ham / Future Ham / Hamling (voice)
Tree's Blood
as Elviria (voice)
Theater Camp
as Janet Walch
Bottoms
as Josie
History of the World: Part II
TVas Runaway Slave• 1 eps
Mulligan
TVas General Scarpaccio / Jayson Moody (voice)• 14 eps
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
TVas VR Shopping Spree Host• 1 eps
Clone High
TVas Harriet Tubman (voice)• 20 eps
Kiff
TVas Professor Totsy (voice)• 1 eps
Black Mirror
TVas Sandy• 1 eps
Abbott Elementary
TVas Ayesha• 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
Mulligan
TVCo-Producer• 20 eps
Mulligan
TVWriter• 1 eps
2022
The Bear
TVas Sydney Adamu• 38 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
The Daily Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
PAUSE with Sam Jay
TVas Party Guest• 1 eps
The Bear
TVDirector
The Bear
TVCo-Executive Producer
The Bear
TVWriter
Craig of the Creek
TVStory• 1 eps
2021
As of Yet
as Khadijah
Cicada
as Nikki
How It Ends
as Stand Up
The Premise
TVas Eve Stone• 1 eps
Dickinson
TVas Hattie• 6 eps
Dickinson
TVStaff Writer• 10 eps
Dickinson
TVWriter• 2 eps
2020
Shithouse
as Emily (uncredited)
BIGTOP BURGER
TVas Frances (Voice)• 6 eps
Ayo and Rachel are Single
TVas Ayo• 3 eps
Big Mouth
TVas Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice) / Missy Foreman-Greenwald / Mosaic Missy (voice)• 31 eps
Ayo and Rachel are Single
TVWriter• 3 eps
2019
Sunnyside
TVWriter• 1 eps
Sunnyside
TVStory Editor• 1 eps
What We Do in the Shadows
TVConsulting Producer
2018
2017

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Personal Info

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