In her first episode, she accidentally said "fucking" during her debut sketch "Biker Chick Chat", which was heard on the live broadcast, but removed from reruns. Slate joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 2009–10 season. Slate's guest appearances on television programs include Bob's Burgers, Girls, The Whitest Kids U' Know, Important Things with Demetri Martin and Raising Hope. She had a recurring role in Bored to Death. In early 2009, she had made several appearances on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon recurring sketch "7th Floor West", where she played an NBC page also named Jenny, who was later promoted to Fallon's assistant. Slate was a regular commentator on many VH1 "talking head" commentary programs. Slate with comedy partner Gabe Liedman in 2007 They describe their relationship as a "nonsexual romance" Slate says, "I like to think of us as kind of like Elaine Benes and George Costanza, but we like each other." Throughout 20, Slate regularly performed her one-woman show titled Jenny Slate: Dead Millionaire at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCBT) in New York City. Slate first met Liedman in 2000 while attending Columbia University. In 2015, Slate, Liedman, and Silvestri ended the show, citing their busy schedules, though they have since occasionally performed together. Their stand-up shows with Max Silvestri, " Big Terrific," were named best new variety show of 2008 by Time Out New York. She and Gabe Liedman formed the comedy duo Gabe & Jenny.
After graduating from Milton Academy as the valedictorian, Slate attended Columbia University as a literature major, where she helped form the improv group Fruit Paunch, starred in the Varsity Show and met Gabe Liedman, who would become her comedy partner. One of her grandmothers was born in Cuba and was raised in France. She is the middle child of three, with an older sister, Abigail, and younger sister, Stacey. Slate was born on March 25, 1982, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Ron Slate, a businessman and poet who worked as vice president of global communications for the EMC Corporation and later as CEO of a biotech startup, and Nancy ( née Gilson), a housewife who also made pottery. She exited the role in 2020 because she felt it should be played by a Black actress Slate has continued to voice other various characters on the show.
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Starting in 2017, Slate, who is Jewish, appeared on the animated Netflix series Big Mouth as the biracial Black–Jewish character Missy Foreman-Greenwald. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed science-fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She lent voice performances to the animated films The Lorax (2012), Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019), The Lego Batman Movie, and Despicable Me 3 (both 2017), and she ventured into dramatic roles with her supporting performance as Bonnie in Gifted (2017).
Slate's breakout role came with her leading performance in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Obvious Child (2014), for which she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Independent Film Award. She became more widely known as a cast member on the 35th season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live between 20, followed by subsequent roles in the comedic series Bob's Burgers (2012–present), Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), House of Lies (2013–2015), and Kroll Show (2013–2015). Following early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate gained recognition for her live variety shows in New York City and for co-creating, writing, and producing the children's short film and book series Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2010–present).
Jenny Sarah Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer.
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