1. Aubrey Christina Plaza was born on June 26,1984 and is an American actress, comedian, and producer.
58 Facts About Aubrey Plaza
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Aubrey Plaza began performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
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In film, Aubrey Plaza had a supporting role in Scott Pilgrim vs the World and a leading role in Safety Not Guaranteed.
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From 2017 to 2019, Aubrey Plaza portrayed the Shadow King and Lenny Busker in the critically praised FX superhero series Legion, and produced and starred in the 2017 black comedy films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West.
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Aubrey Plaza starred in the romantic comedy Happiest Season and thriller Black Bear as well as produced and played the title character in the crime film Emily the Criminal.
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Aubrey Plaza received nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for her role as a strait-laced lawyer in the second season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus.
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Aubrey Christina Plaza was born on June 26,1984, in Wilmington, Delaware.
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The eldest of three sisters, she was born when her parents, Bernadette and David Aubrey Plaza, were 19 and 20.
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Aubrey Plaza said she was inspired by their work ethic; when she was young, they worked various jobs to make ends meet and attended night school in pursuit of their respective professional qualifications to become an attorney and financial advisor.
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Aubrey Plaza's paternal family is Puerto Rican: her grandfather was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and moved to the mainland US when he was 17 years old.
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Aubrey Plaza has some Indigenous American and Basque heritage.
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Aubrey Plaza described herself as shy and quiet until middle school, when she discovered and acted in community theater.
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Aubrey Plaza said her upbringing was "very Catholic", and she attended Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic school.
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Aubrey Plaza enrolled at an improv school in Philadelphia and, in 2001, attended New York Film Academy's summer camp for filmmaking.
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Aubrey Plaza graduated the following year from Ursuline Academy and moved to New York.
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Aubrey Plaza studied film and television production at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2006.
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Aubrey Plaza trained and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since 2004.
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Aubrey Plaza performed at the Laugh Factory and The Improv.
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Aubrey Plaza named Amy Poehler as an inspiration for her decision to perform improv.
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Aubrey Plaza was in two short films in 2006, Killswitch and In Love.
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Aubrey Plaza then played a standup comic and Seth Rogen's love interest in the black comedy-drama film Funny People, directed by Judd Apatow.
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Aubrey Plaza pitched them instead the character of a smart intern who is at the department only for college credit and does not care about the job, which Aubrey Plaza thought would be an interesting, comedic contrast with Poehler's character.
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Aubrey Plaza was cast in the film, playing the supporting character Julie Powers.
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On March 12,2010, Aubrey Plaza performed at A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweetathon for Haiti, produced by Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Ben Stiller, and Mike Rosenstein, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Aubrey Plaza appeared in a CollegeHumor short alongside Jason Bateman and Will Arnett.
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Aubrey Plaza appeared in the comedy-drama film Damsels in Distress and the romantic comedy 10 Years.
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In 2012, Aubrey Plaza had her first starring role in a major film in the comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, playing a magazine intern who answers a curious want ad.
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Aubrey Plaza's performance received positive reviews, and she won the award for Breakthrough Performance at the 2012 Young Hollywood Awards.
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Aubrey Plaza was ejected from the studio lot where the ceremony was held.
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Aubrey Plaza voiced Eska in the animated fantasy action television series The Legend of Korra.
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Aubrey Plaza voiced Grumpy Cat in the Lifetime Network's television film Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever.
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Aubrey Plaza starred in the 2014 horror comedy film Life After Beth about a young woman who returns from the dead, written and directed by her husband Jeff Baena, and in Hal Hartley's drama film Ned Rifle.
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In 2016, Aubrey Plaza starred in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates alongside Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, and Adam DeVine.
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Aubrey Plaza provided a guest voice for the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mall Girl Pearl" with Betty White.
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In 2017, Aubrey Plaza starred in and produced the films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West.
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In Ingrid Goes West, Aubrey Plaza portrayed the social media obsessed fan of an influencer played by Elizabeth Olsen.
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Aubrey Plaza was given creative freedom with the character and collaborated with directors and choreographers on sequences that were ambiguously described on the page.
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In 2019 and 2020, Aubrey Plaza hosted the Independent Spirit Awards.
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In 2020, Aubrey Plaza played Riley Johnson in the romantic comedy Happiest Season, and produced and starred in the independent experimental thriller Black Bear, garnering critical acclaim for her performance.
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In 2021, Aubrey Plaza wrote and made her directorial debut with the episode "Quiet Illness" of the Showtime anthology series Cinema Toast.
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In crafting "Quiet Illness", Aubrey Plaza was inspired by actress Loretta Young's experiences and footage of her appearances.
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Aubrey Plaza edited various film and television clips starring Young into a psychological thriller about a woman's self-esteem, and cast Christina Ricci as a voice narrator.
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Aubrey Plaza described the project as "trippy" with a "pandemic-filming style".
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Aubrey Plaza said that she has always had an interest in directing, and she had been writing a project during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aubrey Plaza wrote a children's book with Dan Murphy, The Legend of the Christmas Witch, illustrated by Julia Iredale.
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Aubrey Plaza produced and starred as the titular character in the independent film Emily the Criminal, portraying a woman saddled with student debt and compelled into criminal activity.
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Aubrey Plaza appeared in the film Spin Me Round, which premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in 2022.
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In October 2022, Aubrey Plaza was given the Artist of Distinction Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
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At the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards, Aubrey Plaza received a nomination for Best Lead Performance for Emily the Criminal, as well as a nomination for Best First Feature as producer.
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Aubrey Plaza was nominated for the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award.
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Aubrey Plaza was confirmed to be starring in John Waters's first film in over 20 years, Liarmouth, based on his novel of the same name.
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Aubrey Plaza portrays the future self of Elliott Labrant in the comedy film My Old Ass, and TV presenter Wow Platinum in Francis Ford Coppola's epic science fiction drama Megalopolis.
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Aubrey Plaza has stated that she falls in love with both women and men.
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Aubrey Plaza met and started dating actor Michael Cera when they were filming Scott Pilgrim vs the World; during their 18-month relationship, Plaza and Cera almost got married as a joke while driving through Las Vegas.
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Aubrey Plaza met writer and director Jeff Baena at a game night in 2011, and they began a relationship.
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The couple were frequent creative collaborators, with Aubrey Plaza starring in four of Baena's films.
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Aubrey Plaza proposed to her at a site related to the Basque witch trials in Zugarramurdi, before they spontaneously got married in 2021.
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Aubrey Plaza had a stroke when she was 20 years old, which caused temporary paralysis and temporary expressive aphasia.