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