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Paula Pell

Paula Pell

Highest Rated: 100% The Slumber Party (2023)

Lowest Rated: 33% Dashing Through the Snow (2023)

Birthday: Apr 15, 1963

Birthplace: Joliet, Illinois, USA

Growing up in the 1970s, Paula Pell fell in love with comedy, particularly the groundbreaking new show "Saturday Night Live" (NBC 1975- ). After the Illinois native studied acting and visual art at Orlando's Seminole Community College and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, she took a job at Walt Disney World, working in the nightclubs of the adults-only Pleasure Island section of the park. On the side, she worked with a local improv troupe, SAK Comedy Lab, in which she developed several popular recurring characters. When the troupe filmed a sketch comedy pilot called "Chucklehead," the show didn't go anywhere, but one of the handful of people who saw it was SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels.

Highest rated movies

100% The Slumber Party
65% Wine Country

Photos

Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell (L), Patricia Clarkson (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell (L), Amy Poehler (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Jim O'Heir, Paula Pell, Retta, Chris Pratt, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Aubrey Plaza, Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Paula Pell, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Paula Pell, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Paula Pell, Chris Pratt, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC WINE COUNTRY, FROM LEFT TOP ROW: ANA GASTEYER, MAYA RUDOLPH, RACHEL DRATCH, FROM LEFT BOTTOM ROW: PAULA PELL, AMY POEHLER, EMILY SPIVEY, 2019. PH: COLLEEN HAYES/© NETFLIX WINE COUNTRY, FROM LEFT: EMILY SPIVEY, PAULA PELL, MAYA RUDOLPH, 2019. PH: COLLEEN HAYES/© NETFLIX WINE COUNTRY, FROM LEFT: PAULA PELL, AMY POEHLER, RACHEL DRATCH, 2019. PH: COLLEEN HAYES/© NETFLIX Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell (L), Nick Offerman (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Paula Pell (L), Amy Poehler (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler (L), Paula Pell (C), Patricia Clarkson (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Nick Offerman, Amy Poehler, Jim O'Heir, Paula Pell, Retta, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Nick Offerman, Amy Poehler, Jim O'Heir, Paula Pell, Retta, Aubrey Plaza, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Pratt, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Aubrey Plaza, Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, Paula Pell, Patricia Clarkson, Nick Offerman, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler (L), Paula Pell (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, from left: Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Paula Pell, 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler (L), Paula Pell (C), Patricia Clarkson (R), 'Ron & Tammys', Season 4, Ep. #2, 09/29/2011, ©NBC
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
91% 96% Inside Out 2 Mom's Anger (Voice) $596.4M 2024
No Score Yet 15% Die Hart 2: Die Harter Cynthia (Character) - 2024
33% 63% Dashing Through the Snow Screenwriter - 2023
100% 75% The Slumber Party Principal Petersen (Character) - 2023
65% 31% Wine Country Val (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Parker Tribe Dot Parker (Character) - 2015
60% 52% Sisters Screenwriter - 2015
51% 50% This Is 40 Executive Producer $67.5M 2012

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 23% The Jennifer Hudson Show Guest 2024
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2014-2015 2019-2024
97% 86% Girls5eva Gloria (Character) 2021-2022 2024
No Score Yet 24% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2021 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Carpool Karaoke: The Series Self 2023
80% 43% Die Hart Cynthia (Character) 2023
88% 82% A.P. Bio Helen Henry DeMarcus (Character),
Helen (Guest Star),
Writer 		2018-2019 2021 2023
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2019-2022
No Score Yet 52% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2020-2021
82% 60% Bless the Harts Ruth (Guest Voice) 2021
No Score Yet 71% Mapleworth Murders Abigail Mapleworth (Character),
Executive Producer 		2020
No Score Yet 81% No Activity Unknown (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 51% Busy Tonight Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2019
95% 87% Documentary Now! Unknown (Guest Star) 2015 2019
27% 22% Camping Writer 2018
No Score Yet 68% The Awesomes Gadget Gal (Voice) 2013-2015
86% 83% The Mindy Project Unknown (Guest Star) 2015
93% 90% Parks and Recreation Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
100% No Score Yet Funny or Die Presents Paula (Character) 2011
No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Executive Producer,
Writer 		2006-2010
78% 92% 30 Rock Paula Hornberger (Guest Star) 2007 2009-2010