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Ana Gasteyer

Ana Gasteyer

Highest Rated: 92% Grease: Live! (2016)

Lowest Rated: 6% Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)

Birthday: May 4, 1967

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA

A comedic powerhouse with real vocal talent, Ana Gasteyer springboarded from The Groundlings to "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ), where she quickly established herself as a first-rate impersonator, nailing wickedly clever takes on Martha Stewart and Celine Dion. Among her breakout characters included the earnestly awful folk singer Cinder Calhoun, Molly Shannon's soft-spoken NPR "Delicious Dish" co-host, and along with Will Ferrell, a husband-and-wife team of white-bread music teachers who throw themselves into passionate but terrible covers of popular songs. An under-the-radar MVP, Gasteyer parlayed her "SNL" goodwill into small roles in "Dick" (1999), "Woman on Top" (2000) and "What Women Want" (2000), but earned her biggest movie success as the anthropologist mother of Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) in Tina Fey's blockbuster "Mean Girls" (2004). She showed off her amazing pipes in "Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical" (2005), and to greater acclaim as Elphaba in the stage musical "Wicked," a role she reprised on Broadway. She made a cameo in "The Women" (2008) and played a mayor in Tyler Perry's "We the Peeples" (2011). The actress also notched two recurring roles: a quirky judge on "The Good Wife" (CBS, 2009-16) and an overbearing suburbanite in "Suburgatory" (ABC, 2011-14). Proving her versatility in musical theater as well as onscreen, Ana Gasteyer earned a stellar reputation as an ace scene-stealer and comedic force who enlivened every project in which she appeared with her unique, offbeat energy.

Highest rated movies

92% 68% Grease: Live!
86% 75% Robot & Frank
84% 66% Mean Girls 82% 72% Happiest Season
75% 87% Reefer Madness
72% 53% Dick
67% 53% Geography Club
65% 31% Wine Country

Filmography

Movies

Credit
50% No Score Yet Doin' It Unknown (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl Self - 2022
No Score Yet 38% Dolly Parton's Mountain Magic Christmas Susan Roberts (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet 56% A Clüsterfünke Christmas Hildy (Character),
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2021
82% 72% Happiest Season Harry Levin (Character) - 2020
65% 31% Wine Country Catherine (Character) - 2019
92% 68% Grease: Live! Principal McGee (Character) - 2016
6% 34% Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Mrs. Gundermutt (Character) $71.0M 2015
67% 53% Geography Club Mrs. Toles (Character) - 2013
24% 29% Rapture-Palooza Mrs. Lewis (Character) - 2013
40% 49% Peeples Mayor Hodge (Character) $9.1M 2013
25% 47% Fun Size Jackie (Character) $9.4M 2012
86% 75% Robot & Frank Shoplady (Character) $3.3M 2012
20% 51% That's My Boy Mrs. Ravensdale (Character) $36.9M 2012
61% 42% Dare Ruth Berger (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 52% Finn on the Fly Dr. Madsen (Character) - 2008
13% 37% The Women Pat (Character) $26.9M 2008
75% 87% Reefer Madness Mae Coleman (Character) - 2005
84% 66% Mean Girls Cady's Mom (Character) $86.1M 2004
10% 35% What's the Worst That Could Happen? Ann Marie (Character) $32.3M 2001
No Score Yet 54% Geppetto Sra. Giovanni (Character) - 2000
35% 42% Woman on Top Claudia Hunter (Character) $5.0M 2000
72% 53% Dick Rose Mary Woods (Character) $6.2M 1999
10% 38% Meet the Deedles Mel (Character) $4.4M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Courting Courtney Rosemary Colletti (Character) - 1997

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Music Performer,
Guest
2014 2016 2019 2022-2024
No Score Yet 52% After Midnight Guest 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The $100,000 Pyramid Guest,
Contestant
2016 2018 2021 2023
100% 78% American Auto Katherine (Character) 2021-2023
No Score Yet 62% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2021 2023
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2021 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2011 2013-2014 2017 2019 2022-2023
No Score Yet 56% That's My Jam Guest 2022
No Score Yet 28% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2011 2014 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Eye Candy Unknown (Character) 2021
No Score Yet 75% The Goldbergs Miss Cinoman (Guest Star) 2014-2016 2018-2021
100% 55% Magical Girl Friendship Squad Nut (Voice) 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Match Game Guest 2016-2018 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Duncanville Saleslady Janine (Guest Voice) 2020
58% 86% Prodigal Son Tilda (Guest Star) 2020
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2012 2019
73% 68% Schooled Ms. Cinoman (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Larry King Now Guest 2019
No Score Yet 51% Busy Tonight Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2015 2019
95% 78% Voltron: Legendary Defender Krolia (Guest Voice) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollywood Game Night Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nature Narrator 2018
84% 74% Great News Unknown (Guest Star) 2017-2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2016-2017
97% 80% Lady Dynamite Karen Grisham (Character) 2017
89% 86% People of Earth Gina Morrison (Character) 2016-2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dawn of the Croods Meep (Voice) 2015-2017
No Score Yet 65% The Lion Guard Reirei (Guest Voice) 2016-2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2016
38% 76% Maya & Marty Music Performer,
Guest
2016
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2016
96% 84% Difficult People Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
97% 78% Younger Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
89% 76% Girls Melanie Shapiro (Guest Star) 2015
86% 83% The Mindy Project Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Speed Dater (Guest Voice) 2014
93% 91% The Good Wife Judge Patrice Lessner (Guest Star) 2010-2011 2013-2014
91% 90% Suburgatory Sheila Shay (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2011-2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2010 2012 2014
No Score Yet 62% Saturday Night Live Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
1989 1991 1996-2002 2010 2012
92% 91% Curb Your Enthusiasm Jennifer (Guest Star) 2011
30% 33% Running Wilde Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
90% 91% Chuck Unknown (Guest Star) 2010
18% No Score Yet Valentine Unknown (Guest Star) 2009
58% No Score Yet I'm With Her Unknown (Guest Star) 2003
95% 94% Frasier Trish Haney (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet 67% 3rd Rock From the Sun Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Just Shoot Me April (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad About You Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
83% 93% NYPD Blue Angie (Guest Star) 1996
89% 92% Seinfeld Woman (Guest Star) 1995