Amy Meredith Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American comedienne, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008, and played Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015.
Career
Prior to SNL, Poehler was a regular performer on Upright Citizens Brigade between 1998 through 2000. Other recurring roles on TV shows include Hillary in Undeclared (2001 to 2002), Winnie in Kroll Show (from 2014 through 2015) and Susie in the Wet Hot American Summer series.
Her first major film role was as Ruth in 1999's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in 2008's Baby Mama. She has been nominated twice for both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance on Saturday Night Live, and for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Parks & Recreation. She also starred opposite her then-husband, Will Arnett, in the 2007 film Blades of Glory.
She co-created the Nickelodeon animated series The Mighty B!, and voiced its main character Bessie Higgenbottom. It premiered around the same time as Parks, and Poehler had become a mother during Mighty B!'s run, so these factors may have led to the show's demise. For her role as Bessie, Poehler received back-to-back Daytime Emmy Award nominations in 2009 and 2010 for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program.[1][2]
As a voice actress, Poehler voiced Snow White in Shrek the Third (2007), Sally O'Malley in 2008's Horton Hears a Who!, the Chipette Eleanor Miller in the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise (2009 to 2011), Homily in the English dub of The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), Jenny in the 2013 film Free Birds and Joy in the 2015 film Inside Out. For animated series, she has voiced Jenda in The Simpsons (2005 to 2014), Jaclyn Stone in The Awesomes (from 2014 through 2015) and the lead character Duncan Harris in Duncanville (since 2020).
Post-Mighty B, Poehler appeared as Maura Ellis in Sisters alongside Fey, and was Kate Johansen in The House.
Voice credits
| Season 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Episode no. | Title | Characters voiced |
| 101a | "So Happy Together" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 101b | "Sweet Sixteenth" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 102a | "Bee My Baby" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 102b | "Bee Afraid" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 103a | "Artificial Unintelligence" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 103b | "We Got the Bee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 104a | "Li'l Orphan Happy" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 104b | "Body Rockers" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 105a | "Bat Mitzvah Crashers" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 105b | "Super Secret Weakness" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 106a | "An I See Bee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 106b | "Woodward and Beesting" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 107a | "Doppelfinger" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 107b | "Little Womyn" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 108a | "The Apprentice" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 108b | "Beenedict Arnold" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 109a | "Boston Beean" | Bessie Higgenbottom & Sissy Sullivan |
| 109b | "Penny Hearts Joey" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 110a | "Ten Little Honeybees" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 110b | "Toot Toot" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 111a | "Night Howl" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 111b | "Hat Trick" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 112a | "Apoxalypse Now" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 112b | "Hive Jacked" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 113a | "Something's Wrong With This Taffy" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 113b | "Name Shame" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 114a | "Bee Patients" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 114b | "To Bee or Not To Bee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 115a | "Eye of the Honeybee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 115b | "Thanksgiving Beenactment" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 116a | "Blindsided" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 116b | "Hen and Bappy" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 117a | "Ben Appetit" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 117b | "Dang it Feels Good to Be a Gamester" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 118a | "Portrait of a Happy" | Bessie Higgenbottom, Girl & Art Dealer #2 |
| 118b | "O Say Can Bess See" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 119a | "Macro Mayhem" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 119b | "Ben Screams For Ice Cream" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 120 | "Dragonflies" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| Season 2 | ||
| 201 | "Catatonic" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 202a | "What's the Frequency Bessie?" | Bessie Higgenbottom and Redneck Woman |
| 202b | "Bee Nice" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 203a | "Dirty Happy" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 203b | "Tour D’Alcatraz" | Bessie Higgenbottom & McGee |
| 204a | "Hairy Situation" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 204b | "Bee Plus One" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 205a | "Bad to the Bee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 205b | "Hive of Darkness" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 206a | "Mr. Turtleton's Wild Ride" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 206b | "A Pirate's Life for B" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 207a | "Awww-esome" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 207b | "Dogcatcher in the Rye" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 208a | "Rinx!" | Bessie Higgenbottom & Femme Fatale |
| 208b | "Sleepless in San Francisco" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 209a | "Finger Pickin' Bad" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 209b | "Higgenbottom's 7" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 210a | "It's B's Party" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 210b | "B-Chip" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 211a | "Old Bee and the Sea" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 211b | "One Million Years Bee.C. | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 212a | "The Bone Identity" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 212b | "Grumpy Old Bees" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 213a | "Children of the Unicorn" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 213b | "My Way or the Bee Way" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 214 | "O Brother, What Art Thou?" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 215 | "Stuffed Happens" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 216 | "Gorillas in the Midst" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 217a | "Space Evaders" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 217b | "YiPs" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 218a | "Public Enembee" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 218b | "Bang the Drum Timely" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 219a | "The League of Ordinary Gentlemen" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 219b | "Irritable Bowling Syndrome" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 220a | "Bess-E" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
| 220b | "C'mon Get Happy!" | Bessie Higgenbottom |
Trivia
- She is the only cast member to provide a voice role in every episode.
- Poehler has stated "Toot Toot" is one of her favorite episodes.[3]
- Her former husband Will Arnett guest starred in "Tour D'Alcatraz."
- During production of the first season, Poehler recorded as Bessie every Monday.[4]
- Per the episode credits, Poehler voiced an incidental character (Woman One) in "Eye of the Honeybee," who does not appear in the episode. This means her scene must have been cut.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Bierly, Mandi (May 14, 2009). Daytime Emmy Awards: 'One Life to Live', 'Ellen DeGeneres' top nominations. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
- ↑ Lipton, Brian Scott (May 18, 2010). Regis Philbin to Host Daytime Emmy Awards; Wayne Brady, Whoopi Goldberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman Among Nominees. TheaterMania. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
- ↑ Ciardullo, Lindsey; Dasaro, Tina; Lynch, Casey (August 9, 2008). Talking With Actress Amy Poehler. Newsday. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- ↑ Baldwin, Kristen (April 27, 2008). Amy Poehler: My crazy characters. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
| Voice Actors | |
|---|---|
| Series regulars | Amy Poehler • Andy Richter • Jessica DiCicco • Dee Bradley Baker • Dannah Feinglass • Grey DeLisle |
| Recurring | Matt Besser • John Ross Bowie • Megan Cavanagh • Jessica Chaffin • Rob Corddry • Niecy Nash • Rob Paulsen • Kevin Michael Richardson • Hal Rudnick • Justin Stein • Jill Talley • Kenan Thompson • Sarah Thyre • Keone Young |
| Guest stars | Pamela Adlon • Will Arnett • Mike Bell • Paul Butcher • Jamie Denbo • Mathias Dougherty • Zachary Gordon • Jackée Harry • Artie Lange • Danny Mann • Donald Newhouse • Mike O'Malley • Suze Orman • Brian Posehn • Maya Rudolph • Dan Schneider • Audrey Wasilewski • Ken Wilson |
