Amy Poehler

Acting•Born September 16, 1971 (age 54)•Newton, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Amy Poehler (/ˈpoʊlər/; born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she co-founded the improvisational-comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group moved to New York City in 1996 where their act became a half-hour sketch-comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler is a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Poehler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

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Filmography

2026

Lorne

as Self (Uncredited)

Movie

2025

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

as Self - Host

2025

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

as Self

Movie

2025

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

as Self

2024

Dream Productions

as Joy (voice)

2024

Inside Out 2

as Joy (voice)

Movie

2024

I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story

as Self (archive footage)

Movie

2023

Disney 100: Remember That

as Self

Movie

2023

First Time Female Director

as Meg

Movie

2023

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

as Narrator (voice)

2023

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

as Self - Guest

Movie

2022

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

as Self

Movie

2021

Baking It

as Self - Host

2021

Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around

as Self

Movie

2021

Moxie

as Lisa Carter

Movie

2020

A Parks and Recreation Special

as Leslie Knope

Movie

2020

The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation

as Leslie Knope

Movie

2020

Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble

as Self

Movie

2020

One World: Together at Home

as Self

Movie

2020

Duncanville

as Leslie Knope (voice)

2020

Duncanville

as Duncan / Annie (voice)

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

2019

Wine Country

as Abby

Movie

2019

Desus & Mero

as Self - Illustrious Guest

2018

Making It

as Self - Host

2018

Love, Gilda

as Self

Movie

2017

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

as Susie

2017

The House

as Kate Johansen

Movie

2017

Household Name

Movie

2016

America Divided

as Self

2016

Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe

as The Devil

Movie

2016

WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews

as Self - Guest

2016

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

as Self

Movie

2016

The UCB Show

as Self - Host

2015

Sisters

as Maura Ellis

Movie

2015

A Very Murray Christmas

as Liz

Movie

2015

Mind Candy

as Joy (voice)

Movie

2015

Riley's First Date?

as Joy (voice)

Movie

2015

Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

as Self

Movie

2015

Difficult People

as Flute

2015

Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot

as Self

Movie

2015

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

as Susie

2015

Inside Out

as Joy (voice)

Movie

2015

Live from New York!

as Self

Movie

2014

The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas

as Sunshine

Movie

2014

The Approval Matrix

as Self - Special Guest

2014

They Came Together

as Molly

Movie

2014

Don Rickles: One Night Only

as Self

Movie

2014

Welcome to Sweden

as Amy Poehler

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

2014

Broad City

as Cheryl

2013

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

as Wendy Van Peele (uncredited)

Movie

2013

Free Birds

as Jenny (voice)

Movie

2013

A.C.O.D.

as Sondra

Movie

2013

Are You Here

as Terri Baker

Movie

2013

Hollywood Game Night

as Self

2013

Never Before, Never Again: Behind the Scenes of Asssscat

as Self

Movie

2013

The Last Leg

as Self

2012

The Greatest Event in Television History

as Jennifer Hart

2012

Comedy Bang! Bang!

as Self

2012

Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl

as Self

Movie

2011

Billy on the Street

as Self

2011

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

as Eleanor (voice)

Movie

2011

Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil

as Gretel (voice)

Movie

2011

Fight for Your Right Revisited

as Café Patron

Movie

2010

Conan

as Self

2010

The Women of SNL

as Various (archive footage)

Movie

2010

Freak Dance

as Lilian

Movie

2010

Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again

as Self

Movie

2009

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

as Eleanor (voice)

Movie

2009

The Jay Leno Show

as Self

2009

The Mystery of Claywoman

as Celeste Dupree

Movie

2009

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

2009

Spring Breakdown

as Gayle O'Brien

Movie

2009

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

as Various (archive footage)

Movie

2009

Parks and Recreation

as Leslie Knope

2009

Monsters vs Aliens

as Computer (voice)

Movie

2009

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

as Self

2008

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

2008

The Mighty B!

as Bessie Higgenbottom

2008

Baby Mama

as Angie

Movie

2008

Horton Hears a Who!

as Sally O'Malley (voice)

Movie

2008

Hamlet 2

as Cricket Feldstein

Movie

2008

Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock”

as Self

Movie

2008

Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales

as Self

Movie

2007

Southland Tales

as Veronica Mung / Dream

Movie

2007

Wild Girls Gone

as Doreen Moran

Movie

2007

Mr. Woodcock

as Maggie

Movie

2007

Shortcut to Happiness

as Molly Gilchrest

Movie

2007

Shrek the Third

as Snow White (voice)

Movie

2007

On Broadway

as Farrah

Movie

2007

Blades of Glory

as Fairchild Van Waldenberg

Movie

2007

Asssscat

Movie

2007

Girl Missing

as Vikki

Movie

2007

The Making of 'The Pick of Destiny'

as Self

Movie

2007

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

2006

The Ex

as Carol Lane

Movie

2006

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

as Truck Stop Waitress

Movie

2006

30 Rock

as Young Liz

2006

Man of the Year

as Amy Poehler

Movie

2006

Tenacious D: For the Ladies

Movie

2005

SpongeBob SquarePants: Where's Gary?

as Grandma

Movie

2005

Weekends at the D.L.

2005

Wonder Showzen

2005

Wonder Showzen

as Miss Mary

2005

Saving Manhattan

as Kristen

Movie

2004

Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie

as Bank Teller

Movie

2004

O'Grady

2004

Mean Girls

as Mrs. George

Movie

2004

Envy

as Natalie Vanderpark

Movie

2003

Arrested Development

as Gob's Wife

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self

2003

Comedy Central Roasts

as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

2003

Sick in the Head

Movie

2002

Martin & Orloff

as Patty

Movie

2001

Undeclared

as Hillary

2001

Wet Hot American Summer

as Susie

Movie

2001

North Hollywood

as Wendy

Movie

2000

Zoe Loses It

as Pink

Movie

1999

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

as Ruth

Movie

1999

SpongeBob SquarePants

as Grandma (voice)

1998

Upright Citizens Brigade

as Colby

1998

Tomorrow Night

as Woman Getting Squirted

Movie

1998

Ugly Revenge

as Pretty Lady

Movie

1997

The View

as Self - Guest

1997

The View

as Self

1996

Escape From a Wonderful Life

as Mary Hatch (voice)

Movie

1996

Spin City

as Susan

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

1993

Late Show with David Letterman

as Self - Guest

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as Self

1989

The Simpsons

as Jenda (voice)

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self

1983

Friday Night Videos

1975

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

1975

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1975

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1975

Saturday Night Live

as Self

1975

People's Choice Awards

as Self - Presenter

1953

The Oscars

as Self

1953

The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Host

1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

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Dig

as Elise

Personal Info

DepartmentActing

BirthdaySeptember 16, 1971

Place of BirthNewton, Massachusetts, USA

Popularity2.5