Kristen Joy Schaal is an American actress, comedian, and writer.
40 Facts About Kristen Schaal
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Kristen Schaal had voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls.
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Kristen Schaal played Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, Kristen Schaal Holler, and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth.
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Kristen Schaal provided several voices for BoJack Horseman; for the character of Sarah Lynn, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.
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Kristen Schaal was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016.
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Kristen Schaal voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game Anthem.
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Kristen Schaal was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado.
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Kristen Schaal's father is a construction worker and her mother a secretary.
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Kristen Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996.
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Kristen Schaal has a brother, David, who is three years her elder.
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Kristen Schaal attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and graduated from Northwestern University.
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Kristen Schaal then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career.
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In 2006, Kristen Schaal performed at the 2006 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where she won the award for "Best Alternative Comedian".
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Kristen Schaal was the winner of the second annual Andy Kaufman Award, Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York City, and "Best Female Stand Up Comedian" at the 2007 ECNY Awards.
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Also in 2006, Kristen Schaal appeared on the first season of the Comedy Central show Live at Gotham.
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Kristen Schaal is a founding member of the theatre company The Striking Viking Story Pirates, which adapts stories by children into sketches and songs.
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Kristen Schaal performed live at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007 in Scotland, where she was one of six acts requested to perform at the US Consul General-sponsored "Fringe USA" Showcase.
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On her return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008, Kristen Schaal was nominated for the If.
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Kristen Schaal has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 in aid of Amnesty International, and at the Bonnaroo 2009 music festival.
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In 2010, Kristen Schaal appeared as a stand-up comic on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and at the Solid Sound Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Kristen Schaal appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords as the stalker-fan Mel, a role which earned her an EWwy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009.
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Kristen Schaal was a credited consultant and writer for Season 11 of South Park, and appeared on the BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
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Kristen Schaal made her first appearance as a "special commentator" on Comedy Central's The Daily Show on March 13,2008, often presented in recurring appearances as its news team's "Senior Women's Issues Correspondent".
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Kristen Schaal appeared in television commercials for T-Mobile, Wendy's, RadioShack, Starburst, Sony Xperia, and Zaxby's.
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Kristen Schaal made an appearance, in April 2008, on the IFC sketch comedy show The Whitest Kids U' Know.
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Kristen Schaal voiced 12-year-old Mabel Pines on Disney Channel's hit TV series Gravity Falls.
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In October 2008, Kristen Schaal appeared in an episode of Spicks and Specks.
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Kristen Schaal voiced Trixie the Triceratops in Toy Story 3 and Pumpkin Witch and Palace Witch in Shrek Forever After.
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Kristen Schaal was featured with Kurt Braunohler on the Radiolab episode "Loops".
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Kristen Schaal was in a commercial for the Xperia Play version of Minecraft.
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Kristen Schaal guest starred on The Simpsons May 8,2011 episode "Homer Scissorhands," in which she plays Taffy, a love interest of Milhouse.
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Kristen Schaal is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Kristen Schall".
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In 2013, Kristen Schaal guest starred in the two-part episode "Sea Tunt" of Archer, lending her voice to a character named Tiffy.
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In 2014, Kristen Schaal co-starred alongside Casey Wilson, Danielle Schneider, Tymberlee Hill, Andrea Savage, and Angela Kinsey in the first season of the Hulu original series The Hotwives of Orlando.
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Kristen Schaal co-starred alongside Will Forte in the FOX comedy The Last Man on Earth, which premiered on March 1,2015.
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Kristen Schaal appeared in A Walk in the Woods as hiker Mary Ellen.
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In 2016, Kristen Schaal was a panelist on episode 1 of the British comedy show The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, a spinoff of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
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Kristen Schaal was featured in the episode "The Plantars Check In" in the animated series Amphibia in which she voiced Bella the Bellhop.
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Kristen Schaal was featured on the episode "Dead Mall" in the animated series Bless the Harts where she voiced Stacey.
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Kristen Schaal originally intended for them to write the book under pseudonyms, "because I don't want anyone to imagine me doing those things", but realized it would be harder to promote the book without using their real names.