Ayo Edebiri is an American actress, comedian, and television writer.
30 Facts About Ayo Edebiri
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Ayo Edebiri was born in Boston on October 3,1995, to a Bajan mother and Nigerian father.
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Ayo Edebiri is an only child, and she grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood.
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Ayo Edebiri's family is Pentecostal and she regularly attended church services with her parents.
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Ayo Edebiri first became interested in comedy through her eighth grade drama class leading her to join the improv club at Boston Latin School.
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Ayo Edebiri went to New York University, where she initially intended to study teaching before switching her major to dramatic writing.
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In 2014, Ayo Edebiri acted in an episode of the series Defectives.
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Ayo Edebiri started her career as a stand-up comedian and performed a stand-up set on Comedy Central's Up Next.
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Ayo Edebiri's scripted digital series Ayo and Rachel Are Single began airing on Comedy Central in May 2020, which she co-wrote and co-starred in with her friend and fellow comedian Rachel Sennott.
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Ayo Edebiri made her film debut in the 2020 comedy-drama Shithouse in an uncredited role.
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Ayo Edebiri co-hosted a podcast called Iconography with Olivia Craighead in which guests were interviewed about their shared personal icons.
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Ayo Edebiri joined the writing staff of Big Mouth for the show's fourth season.
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Ayo Edebiri's voice acting as the character began at the end of the show's fourth season.
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Ayo Edebiri was a writer and actress in Dickinson's second season on Apple TV+, where she first worked with Christopher Storer, who later created The Bear.
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Ayo Edebiri acted in a supporting role in the 2022 film adaptation of the Jennifer E Smith young adult novel Hello.
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In 2022, Ayo Edebiri gained wider prominence as a main cast member on the FX on Hulu series The Bear.
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Ayo Edebiri received a Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and Independent Spirit Award in addition to nominations from the Gotham Awards and the Critics' Choice Awards for her role as Sydney Adamu, an ambitious young sous chef.
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Ayo Edebiri made her directorial debut in the season three episode "Napkins".
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Ayo Edebiri coproduced, appeared and served as a writer on Mulligan, an animated series for Netflix.
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Ayo Edebiri provided voice acting as Ham in the Netflix interactive special We Lost Our Human.
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Ayo Edebiri voiced roles in the Disney Channel series Kiff and the Max series Clone High.
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Katie Walsh of The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Sennott and Ayo Edebiri deliver two of the funniest performances of the year".
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Ayo Edebiri appeared in the film The Sweet East directed by Sean Price Williams, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival at the Directors' Fortnight.
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Ayo Edebiri won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2024; as Quinta Brunson won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series that same year, that was the first year that two Black actresses won the two female comedy acting categories in the Primetime Emmys.
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Ayo Edebiri hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Jennifer Lopez in 2024.
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Ayo Edebiri voiced Envy in the Pixar film Inside Out 2, a sequel to the first film.
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Ayo Edebiri appeared as a crazed woman in the music video for Tyler, The Creator's 2024 single, "Noid".
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Ayo Edebiri starred in the 2025 A24 horror film Opus, co-starring John Malkovich.
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Ayo Edebiri is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has frequently canvassed for the organization.
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Ayo Edebiri reciprocated and began referring to Ireland as her home country in media interviews, thanking Ireland in award speeches, and generally playing into the idea of herself being Irish.