13 Facts About Heidi Gardner

Heidi Lynn Gardner was born on July 27,1983 and is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

Heidi Gardner has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since season 43 in 2017, when she debuted as a featured player.

Heidi Gardner was promoted to repertory status on the show in 2019.

Heidi Gardner worked part-time at the Tivoli Theater in Kansas City as a child, where she did everything "from selling tickets to making popcorn".

Heidi Gardner later credited the theater as "setting the tone in her life".

Heidi Gardner was not interested in acting as a teenager, only performing on stage as a flautist for the school band and doing comedy sketches in school talent shows.

Heidi Gardner graduated from the all-girls Catholic high school Notre Dame de Sion in southern Kansas City in 2001.

At age 21, Heidi Gardner dropped out of college and left Kansas City for Los Angeles, where she worked at a hair salon for nine years.

Once she was comfortable performing, Heidi Gardner auditioned for the Groundlings basic class and was accepted.

In 2014, Heidi Gardner joined the Sunday Company and a year later after a promotion to the Main Company, she quit her job as a hairstylist to focus on acting.

In 2019, Heidi Gardner made her stage debut in Michael Frayn's Noises Off at The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Heidi Gardner, who had never broken character in seven seasons on SNL, cracked while playing NewsNation host Bobbi Moore in a Beavis and Butt-Head-centered sketch on April 13,2024.

Heidi Gardner is a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals.