Cecily Legler Strong was born on February 8,1984 and is an American actress, comedian, producer, author, and singer.
29 Facts About Cecily Strong
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Cecily Strong is the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history.
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Cecily Strong hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2015.
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Cecily Strong was born in Springfield, Illinois, and was raised in Oak Park, an inner ring suburb of Chicago.
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Cecily Strong is the daughter of Penelope and William "Bill" Strong, who worked as an Associated Press bureau chief and as of 2013 ran his own public relations firm.
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Penny Legler Cecily Strong is a nurse practitioner, having worked extensively at area hospitals.
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Cecily Strong grew up adoring SNL as a child, reenacting sketches with her friend and watching old SNL commercials on VHS.
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Cecily Strong attended Oak Park and River Forest High School until her sophomore year, when she was expelled for bringing marijuana to school.
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Cecily Strong then attended a private Catholic school until transferring for her senior year to the Chicago Academy for the Arts, where she graduated in 2002.
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Cecily Strong then studied acting at California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 2006 with a BFA in theatre.
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Cecily Strong performed regularly at The Second City and iO Chicago.
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Cecily Strong performed on a cruise ship with other Second City members for four months.
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Cecily Strong appeared at the Chicago Sketch Fest, Chicago Just for Laughs, the New York Sketchfest, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Goodman Theater, the Bailiwick Theater, the Mercury Theater, and with the all-female improv troupe Virgin Daiquiri.
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Cecily Strong debuted as a featured player on Saturday Night Live on September 15,2012.
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The next season, Cecily Strong became a repertory player and co-anchored the recurring Weekend Update segment with Seth Meyers, beginning with the season 39 premiere.
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Cecily Strong later co-anchored with Colin Jost, and was replaced on Weekend Update with writer Michael Che, beginning with the season 40 premiere in September 2014, partly at her own request to focus on doing sketches as a part of the regular cast.
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In 2020, Cecily Strong was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series for her work on the show.
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Cecily Strong was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 12th Critics' Choice Television Awards.
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Cecily Strong drew praise from abortion-rights supporters, and strong backlash from abortion opponents, after appearing in a comedy skit, "Goober the Clown Who Had An Abortion When She Was 23," during a Weekend Update sketch on the November 6,2021, episode.
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Cecily Strong later confirmed on her Instagram account that the sketch referenced her own abortion.
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Cecily Strong followed up on the commentary a year later, during a Weekend Update sketch on the November 5,2022, episode, appearing as "Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion" before the 2022 midterm elections.
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Cecily Strong returned to SNL for season 48, and passed former castmate Kate McKinnon as the longest-running female cast member in the show's history, though she missed the first three shows of the season reprising her role in the play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in Los Angeles.
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Cecily Strong passed McKinnon's record with the December 17,2022, episode, her last.
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Cecily Strong was the featured entertainer at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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Cecily Strong took digs at the various news organizations in attendance, politicians of all persuasions, and President Obama.
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Cecily Strong took shots at the US Secret Service, host location the Washington Hilton, Brian Williams, Sarah Koenig and the state of Indiana.
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That year, Cecily Strong joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as a celebrity correspondent.
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Cecily Strong has appeared in a series of commercials for Triscuit since 2017.
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In 2021, Cecily Strong appeared in HBO Max's six-part comedy series That Damn Michael Che, featuring SNL castmate Michael Che.