Amy Poehler is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director.
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Amy Poehler is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director.
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In 2001, Amy Poehler joined the cast of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live.
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Amy Poehler's became co-anchor of SNLs Weekend Update in 2004 until she left the series in 2008 to star as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks and Recreation.
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Amy Poehler is an executive producer on the television series Welcome to Sweden, Broad City, Difficult People, Duncanville, Three Busy Debras, and Russian Doll.
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In December 2015, Amy Poehler received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television.
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Amy Poehler's won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy Series in 2014 and a Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012.
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Amy Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts to school teachers Eileen and William Amy Poehler.
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Amy Poehler's has one younger brother, Greg, who is a producer and actor.
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Amy Poehler's ancestry is Irish, along with German, Portuguese, English, her Irish roots originate from County Sligo and County Cork.
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Amy Poehler grew up in nearby Burlington, Massachusetts, which she describes as a blue-collar town.
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When she was 10 years old, Poehler played Dorothy Gale in her school's production of L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
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Amy Poehler continued acting in school plays at Burlington High School.
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Amy Poehler's participated in other activities during her time in high school including student council, soccer, and softball.
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Amy Poehler's graduated from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in media and communications in 1993.
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Amy Poehler's time studying improv in college inspired her to pursue comedy professionally.
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Early on, Amy Poehler worked as a waitress and at other jobs to earn money.
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Amy Poehler started making appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, often playing her recurring role as Andy Richter's little sister, Stacy.
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Amy Poehler's was promoted from featured player to full cast member in her first season on the show, making her the second cast member, and first woman, to earn this distinction.
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Fey and Amy Poehler became the first female co-anchors of the longtime SNL staple.
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The sketch, which Amy Poehler co-wrote with Meyers, became the biggest viral video of the year.
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Amy Poehler had been rehearsing for that week's show until the day before the birth.
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Amy Poehler would take it upon herself to welcome guest hosts during rehearsals and try to make them feel comfortable during their stint on SNL.
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In July 2008, Variety reported that Amy Poehler was in final negotiations to star in the still untitled series from Daniels and Schur.
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Amy Poehler played deputy director of the Parks Department Leslie Knope in the fictional city of Pawnee, Indiana.
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Behind the scenes, Amy Poehler started a tradition of inviting the show cast and crew to a group dinner the last night of any location shoot.
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Amy Poehler would start impromptu dance parties in the makeup trailer on set.
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Amy Poehler wrote several episodes throughout the series, starting with the season two episode "Telethon".
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In March 2017, NBC ordered to series a Amy Poehler-produced crafting series, then-titled The Handmade Project.
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In 1999, Amy Poehler had a small role in the movie Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
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The studio had been wary of casting too many SNL cast members and were concerned that Amy Poehler was too young to play the mother of Rachel McAdams, who is only seven years younger than her.
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Amy Poehler plays trashy Angie Ostrowiski, who is hired by Fey's Kate to be her child's surrogate mother.
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In Pixar's Inside Out, Amy Poehler provides the voice for the main character, Joy, an emotion living inside an 11-year-old girl.
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Amy Poehler received a screen credit for writing some of Joy's dialogue.
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In 2022, Amy Poehler directed Lucy and Desi, a documentary film about the lives and relationship of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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In 2001, Amy Poehler set up her own production company, Paper Kite Productions, which is part of Universal Television.
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In 2009 and 2010, Amy Poehler earned Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program.
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Amy Poehler's has been an executive producer on series such as Difficult People and Broad City.
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Amy Poehler agreed to appear in it and then joined Jacobson and Glazer to executive produce a television series.
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Amy Poehler makes cameo appearances in multiple episodes as herself as a celebrity client of her brother's character, a former New York tax accountant.
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Amy Poehler is an executive producer on the upcoming series Three Busy Debras, a comedy series being produced for Adult Swim that stars Mitra Jouhari, Alyssa Stonoha, and Sandy Honig.
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In September 2008, Poehler and Meredith Walker and Amy Miles founded Smart Girls at the Party, an online community and digital web series aimed at empowering girls.
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Amy Poehler has publicly championed a number of social and political causes.
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Amy Poehler supported One Fair Wage, a campaign to require New York businesses to pay tipped workers the general minimum wage.
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Amy Poehler has served as a celebrity ambassador for Worldwide Orphans Foundation, traveling to Haiti in 2013.
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In 2011, Amy Poehler was included on Times "100 most influential people in the world".
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Amy Poehler's delivered the Class Day address to Harvard University's class of 2011.
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Amy Poehler's has a role as a disgruntled cafe patron in the music video for the group's song "Make Some Noise", which was nominated for the MTV Video of the Year in 2011.
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Amy Poehler wrote a chapter in the Beastie Boys Book in which she reviews 17 of the group's music videos.
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Amy Poehler's praised her children's nannies as part of her Time 100 speech for helping to take care of them and allowing her to balance her career and family.
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In 2016, Amy Poehler received a letter from the city of Beverly Hills for her excessive water usage during the state of California's drought that year.
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