Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler plays a fictional city official who invented a holiday for the 13th of February, and real people now celebrate it. The holiday is Galentine's Day. It began as a single storyline in the second season of Parks and Recreation, and it has since walked out of the show and into everyday life. That pattern runs through Poehler's career, because she keeps making things that outgrow the place where they started.
Poehler is an American actress and comedian, born in 1971. She has worked in sketch comedy, sitcoms, comedy films, animation, directing, writing and podcasting. Her trophy shelf holds a Primetime Emmy Award, won out of 26 nominations, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2011, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
How does a girl from a blue-collar Massachusetts town end up there? What did improvisation teach her that no other training could? And why do so many of her biggest projects begin with a friend? The answers start in a Boston suburb, long before anyone put her on television.
Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, is where Amy Meredith Poehler was born on the 16th of September 1971. Her parents, Eileen and William, were both school teachers. She credits her father with pushing her to break social rules and take risks. Her younger brother, Greg, would later become a producer and actor.
Burlington, Massachusetts, a town she calls blue-collar, is where she grew up. Her heroes were sketch performers Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner and Catherine O'Hara. At ten years old she played Dorothy Gale in her school's version of The Wizard of Oz, and the experience started her love of performing. At Burlington High School she kept acting in plays, and she also joined student council, soccer and softball.
Boston College welcomed her after she finished high school in 1989. There she joined an improv troupe called My Mother's Fleabag. She graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in media and communications, and her time on that college stage convinced her that comedy could be a profession.
Chicago was the next stop, and Charna Halpern taught her first improv class at ImprovOlympic. Poehler waited tables and took other jobs to pay the bills. At ImprovOlympic she learned from Del Close, and she met Tina Fey. The two joined a Second City touring company at the same moment. Poehler then moved up to one of Second City's main companies, and Fey eventually took her place there.
The Upright Citizens Brigade had formed in Chicago in 1991 as a sketch and improv group. Early members included Horatio Sanz, Adam McKay, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn and Matt Besser. When McKay left in 1995, Poehler stepped into his spot. In 1996, four members moved to New York City: Poehler, Besser, Roberts and Matt Walsh. Called the UCB Four, they played small venues, and those shows grew into four regular live nights within a few months. They taught improv classes to earn extra money. Poehler also turned up on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, often as Stacy, the younger sister of Andy Richter.
In 1998, Comedy Central debuted a half-hour UCB sketch series. During its second season, the group opened an improv theater and training center on West 22nd Street in New York, in the space of a former strip club. It held shows seven nights a week and offered classes in sketch writing and improv. Comedy Central canceled the series in the summer of 2000 after three seasons, but the theater kept going. By 2011, UCB ran two theaters in New York and one in Los Angeles, with 8,000 students taking classes each year. Poehler, Besser, Roberts and Walsh are regarded as the founders, and they are credited with popularizing long-form improv in New York.
Before the networks noticed her, a rock band had already put her face on a record sleeve. In 2000, while still unknown, she appeared on the cover of the Yo La Tengo single "You Can Have It All."
The first episode produced after the 9/11 attacks was Poehler's debut on Saturday Night Live. She joined at the start of the 2001-2002 season, after Tina Fey had spent years trying to recruit her. Within that first season she was promoted from featured player to full cast member. She was the second cast member, and the first woman, to earn that jump so quickly.
Her original characters were a mix of the loud and the odd. Kaitlyn was a hyperactive ten-year-old. Amber was a one-legged reality show contestant. Betty Caruso co-hosted a talk show called Bronx Beat. She also did a long run of impressions, including Hillary Clinton, Dakota Fanning, Avril Lavigne, Michael Jackson, Kim Jong-Il, Britney Spears, Madonna, Dolly Parton, Ann Coulter and Farrah Fawcett.
The 2004-2005 season brought a new seat at the Weekend Update desk. Poehler and Fey replaced Jimmy Fallon there, and they became the first female co-anchor team in the history of that segment. Along with Maya Rudolph, they were among the show's biggest stars that year. Their presence pushed the show toward more sketches built around women. Fey left after the 2005-2006 season to concentrate on 30 Rock, the sitcom she created, and Seth Meyers took the second chair. In 2008, Poehler earned an Emmy nomination for supporting actress in a comedy series, in the first year that SNL cast members could compete in that category.
The 2008-2009 premiere opened with Fey as Sarah Palin and Poehler as Hillary Clinton, discussing sexism in political campaigns. Poehler wrote the sketch with Meyers, and it became the biggest viral video of the year. Days later, NBC announced that she was pregnant with her first child and would not return after her maternity leave. On the 25th of October, Meyers told viewers during Weekend Update that she was in labor. Maya Rudolph and Kenan Thompson sang a custom version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" for her. She had been rehearsing for that week's show until the day before the birth.
Poehler did come back, in spite of the announcement. After a pre-taped prime-time special on the 3rd of November, she worked two more live episodes. On the 13th of December she told the audience during Weekend Update that it was her last show. In April 2009, the network aired "The Best of Amy Poehler." She returned for the 2008-2009 finale to co-host Weekend Update and to join host Will Ferrell in a version of the Billy Joel song "Goodnight Saigon."
Off camera, Poehler was a prolific writer, and she often worked with writer Emily Spivey. Meyers called her "the most generous laugher" at sketch read-throughs. She also made a habit of welcoming guest hosts at rehearsals so they would feel at ease.
Her visits after leaving were frequent. In September 2009 she joined Meyers for two prime-time editions called Weekend Update Thursday, which led straight into Parks and Recreation. On the 8th of May 2010 she came back with other female alumnae for a Mother's Day show hosted by Betty White. She hosted the 2010-2011 season premiere with musical guest Katy Perry. In 2015, for the 40th Anniversary Special, she anchored Weekend Update with Fey and Jane Curtin. She appeared in the 50th Anniversary Special in 2025, then hosted the second episode of season 51 on the 11th of October 2025, exactly fifty years after the show's first broadcast.
Mean Girls, released in 2004, had a role that Tina Fey wrote with Poehler in mind: a self-described "cool mom." Getting her cast took effort. Fey and director Mark Waters had to push, because the studio worried about too many SNL cast members. Executives also feared Poehler looked too young to be the mother of Rachel McAdams, who is only seven years her junior. Poehler shot her scenes in Toronto during the week while still working on SNL. The film grossed $129 million worldwide and kept growing in popularity after it reached DVD.
Baby Mama, in 2008, put the pair together again. Poehler played the trashy Angie Ostrowiski, hired as a surrogate mother by Fey's character, Kate. It opened on the 25th of April 2008 as the number one movie in the country that weekend. It later grossed more than $60 million at the United States box office. Their later films together include Sisters and Wine Country.
The Golden Globe Awards gave them a different stage. In 2013, the first year they hosted, 20 million people watched, a 17 percent increase from the year before. They returned in 2014 as part of a three-year deal. Gilbert Cruz of Vulture wrote: "They killed it last year with their opening monologue and they did so again this year." That 2014 ceremony drew its best ratings in ten years.
Before the 2015 ceremony, Poehler said it would probably be their last time hosting. Rolling Stone said afterward that the two "left no superstar unscathed during their riotous opening monologue" and "casually roasted the assembled masses." The farewell did not hold. At the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, NBC announced that they would host again in 2021. The pandemic split them up that night, with Poehler in Los Angeles and Fey in New York City.
An earlier reunion also earned a trophy. In 2015, the pair co-hosted an episode of SNL during its forty-first season. That appearance won them the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Poehler's best-known solo role, though, was waiting in a fictional Indiana town.
On the 21st of July 2008, NBC announced Poehler's new series, Parks and Recreation. Producers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur had been asked for a follow-up after the success of The Office. Variety had reported earlier that month that Poehler was in final talks. She and Schur were friends from SNL, where he had worked as a writer. Her pregnancy meant the show had to give up a promised post-Super Bowl debut and cut its first season short, and Daniels and Schur chose to wait for her. The network also made clear it was not a direct spin-off of The Office.
On the 9th of April 2009, Parks and Recreation premiered at 8:30 pm, between two episodes of The Office. Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Schneider and Nick Offerman joined Poehler. She played Leslie Knope, deputy director of the Parks Department in the fictional city of Pawnee, Indiana.
The first season got a mixed reception. For season two, the writers separated Leslie from Michael Scott, the central character of The Office. They played down her ditziness and put her intelligence, work ethic and earnest nature at the front. Reviews improved. Adam Scott and Rob Lowe joined at the end of that season, and Scott played Ben Wyatt, who became Leslie's husband. Poehler was expecting again after filming ended, so the first six episodes of season three were produced in one stretch to fit around her pregnancy.
Recognition followed. Poehler was nominated for the Primetime Emmy for lead actress in a comedy in 2011, and the show won a Peabody Award that year. The citation praised it for "developing a hilarious venue to explore the good side of American democracy in an age when that side is so rarely on display." Its survival was still uncertain, so the writers prepared two episodes that could serve as a series finale, including the one where Leslie and Ben marry. In May 2013, NBC renewed it for a sixth season, and Poehler earned another Emmy nomination for season five. In 2014 she won the Golden Globe for best actress in a television comedy at the 71st ceremony, which she co-hosted with Fey.
Season six included the hundredth episode, which Poehler and Schur co-wrote. Midway through that season, the two decided the time had come to plan an ending. NBC agreed and ordered a final run of thirteen episodes. Poehler and Schur co-wrote the closing episode, "One Last Ride," which aired on the 24th of February 2015.
Behind the scenes, Poehler became a producer by season five. She began a tradition of group dinners for cast and crew on the last night of every location shoot. She also started impromptu dance parties in the makeup trailer. She wrote several episodes, beginning with "Telethon" in season two, then "The Fight," "The Debate," "Second Chunce" and the finale. Producer Dan Goor called her writing "exceptionally good" and said, "if Amy Poehler submitted a blind script to any staff, she would be hired." "The Debate" earned nominations for an Emmy and a Writers Guild of America Award, and she directed that episode too. She also directed "Article Two" and "Gryzzlbox."
In 2001, Poehler set up her own production company, Paper Kite Productions, which is part of Universal Television. As of 2019, every member of its staff was a woman. The Hollywood Reporter called her "a powerful arbiter of sophisticated comedy."
The Mighty B! was an animated series for Nickelodeon that she co-created, produced and starred in. It followed Bessie Higgenbottom, a "sweet, merit-badge-obsessed girl scout." Bessie grew out of a character Poehler had played in improv. Its first season averaged 3.1 million viewers, and it ranked among the top five animated programs on television. Nickelodeon ordered a second season, and Poehler earned Daytime Emmy nominations in 2009 and 2010.
In 2014, Hulu ordered Difficult People, starring Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner. It was the streaming service's first scripted series, and it ran three seasons. Broad City began as a web series by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. They used their UCB connections to ask Poehler to appear in the finale of that web series. She agreed, then joined them as an executive producer. After an early sale to FX, the project landed at Comedy Central and aired for five years, ending in 2019.
Welcome to Sweden came from her brother's life. The Swedish sitcom premiered in March 2014 and reached NBC three months later. It drew on Greg Poehler's experience of moving with his girlfriend to her native Sweden in 2006. Amy appeared as herself, a celebrity client of her brother's character, and served as co-executive producer. NBC canceled it on the 28th of July 2015 after two seasons because of low ratings.
Russian Doll started with a joke seven years before it aired. Poehler had remarked that Natasha Lyonne was always "the oldest girl in the world." They imagined a woman who could be many things at once and decided the only way to write such a character was to redo her again and again. That became a story in which Lyonne's character dies repeatedly on her 36th birthday. Poehler, Lyonne and Leslye Headland created it for Netflix and assembled an all-female team of writers and directors. It premiered on the 1st of February 2019 with a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Making It, a crafting competition, debuted on NBC on the 31st of July 2018, with Poehler and her Parks costar Nick Offerman as hosts. It tied for the highest-rated summer premiere that year and earned both of them an Emmy nomination for outstanding host. She is also an executive producer on Three Busy Debras for Adult Swim and on a BBC America project called Zero Motivation.
Directing came last. Wine Country, her first film as director, reached Netflix on the 10th of May 2019. It loosely follows a real trip to Napa Valley that the cast took together, including Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer. Her adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu's novel Moxie followed on the 3rd of March 2021. Then came the documentary Lucy and Desi, about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on the 21st of January 2022. It includes home audio recordings of the couple that had never been made public, plus interviews with their children, Carol Burnett and Bette Midler. The film drew six Emmy nominations, won two, and brought Poehler a nomination for directing.
David Wain cast Poehler in Wet Hot American Summer, his first film, because of her work with the Upright Citizens Brigade. It cost $1.8 million to make and flopped on its release in 2001, but a following grew after it reached DVD. Two years before, she had played a small part in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. She and Fey had also voiced the video game Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City.
Through the mid-2000s she kept adding live-action roles, including Blades of Glory, Mr. Woodcock and Hamlet 2. Voice work ran alongside. Shrek the Third came in 2007, then Horton Hears a Who! in 2008 and Monsters vs. Aliens in 2009. Later credits include The Secret World of Arrietty and Free Birds. Duncanville, which premiered on Fox on the 16th of February 2020, has her voicing two main characters.
Pixar's Inside Out cast her as Joy, an emotion living inside an 11-year-old girl. Poehler also received a screen credit for writing some of Joy's dialogue. The film holds a 98% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $857 million worldwide. She voiced Joy again in Inside Out 2, which opened on the 14th of June 2024.
Audio became her newest medium. Her weekly scripted podcast, Say More with Dr? Sheila, arrived on the 21st of September 2023. In February 2025 she announced Good Hang with Amy Poehler, which premiered on the 18th of March 2025. The Ringer, owned by Spotify, produces it with her own Paper Kite Productions, and each episode is a low-key interview with a comedy friend. It was the inaugural winner of best podcast at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards.
Smart Girls at the Party started in September 2008, when Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles founded it as an online community and web series aimed at empowering girls. The first season premiered online on the 17th of November 2008, with Mattel's Barbie as lead sponsor. In 2012 it returned as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, and the new channel went live on the 2nd of July 2012. Viewers could ask for life advice in a segment called Ask Amy.
Four years after its launch, Legendary Entertainment acquired the project. By then its YouTube channel had logged more than five million views, and over 550,000 people had liked it on Facebook. Poehler said she looked forward to providing "funny and inspirational content for all of the goofballs out there." Smart Girls marked its tenth anniversary in 2018.
In 2012, she worked with the National Domestic Workers Alliance on a public service announcement about the proposed California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. The law, which provides overtime pay for domestic workers, was signed the following year. She also backed One Fair Wage, a campaign to make New York businesses pay tipped workers the standard minimum wage. In 2013 she traveled to Haiti as a celebrity ambassador for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation. The next year she joined Michelle Obama in Miami to mark four years of the Let's Move! youth health initiative.
Her memoir, Yes Please, came out on the 28th of October 2014 from Dey Street, a HarperCollins imprint. She told NPR she was used to writing in characters, so it was easier to share the early parts of her life than her current events. The book covers body image, parenthood and the limits of physical appearance. It debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list and earned her a Grammy nomination for best spoken word album.
Will Arnett, a Canadian actor, saw one of her performances in 1996, and they began dating four years later. They married on the 29th of August 2003. They worked together on Arrested Development, Blades of Glory, Horton Hears a Who! and The Secret World of Arrietty. They announced a separation in September 2012, and the divorce was finalized in July 2016. Their sons are Archie and Abel, and Poehler lives with them in Los Angeles. From 2013 to 2015 she dated comedian Nick Kroll, and since 2024 she has been dating Joel Lovell.
In 2016, the city of Beverly Hills sent her a letter about excessive water use during California's drought. Her property used more than 170,000 gallons between the 14th of May and the 14th of July.
The Beastie Boys supplied the soundtrack to her teenage years. She plays a disgruntled cafe patron in their video for "Make Some Noise," which was nominated for MTV Video of the Year in 2011. In the Beastie Boys Book, she wrote a chapter reviewing 17 of their videos. In it she says their music was what she heard "while I sat in my room, drank in the woods, and rode my bike to my dead-end job." She also voices part of the audio edition.
Honors kept arriving. She delivered the Class Day address to Harvard's class of 2011, and she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. In 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to join its membership.
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Common questions
What is Galentine's Day?
It is a holiday celebrating female friendship on the 13th of February, created by Leslie Knope in a second-season episode of Parks and Recreation. It has since spread into real-life celebrations.
How did Amy Poehler get started in comedy?
She studied improv in college, then moved to Chicago, where she took classes at ImprovOlympic and joined Second City. She then became part of the Upright Citizens Brigade.
What are the Upright Citizens Brigade and its theatre?
The Upright Citizens Brigade is a sketch and improv group formed in Chicago in 1991. Its theatre in New York opened on West 22nd Street in the space of a former strip club.
When was Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live?
She joined the cast at the start of the 2001-2002 season and left in December 2008. She has returned for guest appearances, including hosting the second episode of season 51.
What character does Poehler voice in Inside Out?
She voices Joy, an emotion living inside an 11-year-old girl. She reprised the role in Inside Out 2, and she received credit for writing some of Joy's dialogue.
What is Smart Girls at the Party?
It is an online community and web series aimed at empowering girls, founded in September 2008 by Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles. Legendary Entertainment later acquired it.
Which films has Poehler directed?
She has directed Wine Country, Moxie and the documentary Lucy and Desi, which was nominated for six Emmy Awards.
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- 121'Welcome To Sweden' Cancelled At NBC In Middle Of Season 2Patrick Hipes — July 28, 2015
- 122NBC Acquires Comedy Series 'Welcome To Sweden' From Amy and Greg Poehler, eOneeNellie Andreeva — October 8, 2013
- 123Amy Poehler To Direct 'Moxie' At Netflix; Riot Grrrl-Inspired Teen Starts Feminist Revolution At Her High SchoolMike Jr. Fleming — February 20, 2019
- 125NewsNBC Orders 'The Handmade Project' Crafts Competition Reality Series Hosted By Amy Poehler & Nick OffermanNellie Andreeva — March 28, 2017
- 126NewsAmy Poehler and Nick Offerman Just Want to Make Something NiceLisa Liebman — July 30, 2018
- 128News'Making It' Ratings Match Best Of Summer 2018 Debut; 'Beat Shazam' EvenDominic Patten — August 1, 2018
- 129'Making It' Gets Season 2 Premiere Date; Will Take Over NBC's 'Bluff City Law' SlotErik Pedersen — October 18, 2019
- 130Natasha Lyonne Can't Stop LivingJoy Press — January 31, 2019
- 131Netflix's new hit show 'Russian Doll' started with a phone call from Amy Poehler 7 years agoTravis Clark — February 5, 2019
- 132'Russian Doll' Trailer: Natasha Lyonne Relives Death On An Endless Loop In Netflix ComedyDino-Ray Ramos — Deadline Hollywood — January 9, 2019
- 133'Russian Doll': Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland dissect their trippy Netflix comedyMeredith Blake — February 1, 2019
- 135BBC America preps Poehler dramaC21Media — June 1, 2016
- 136Ty Burrell Joins Amy Poehler In Fox's Animated Family Comedy 'Duncanville'Denise Petski — May 8, 2019
- 137Fox Midseason Premiere Dates: 'Last Man Standing', 'Flirty Dancing', 'Deputy', 'Duncanville' & MoreErik Pedersen — October 24, 2019
- 138Amy Poehler Offers Hilarious Relationship Advice on New Podcast 'Say More with Dr? Sheila' (Exclusive)Lizzie Hyman — September 20, 2023
- 139Amy Poehler to Launch Podcast 'Good Hang' With The Ringer, SpotifyJoe Otterson — 2025-02-10
- 142NewsAmy Poehler and Will Arnett have splitCindy Clark — September 6, 2012
- 143Amy Poehler and Will Arnett SeparateSeptember 6, 2012
- 144NewsWill Arnett Files for Divorce From Amy Poehler 19 Months After SplitAllison Takeda — April 16, 2014
- 145Amy Poehler And Will Arnett Finalize Their DivorceBrittany Wong — August 3, 2016
- 146Amy Poehler and Will Arnett's divorce finalizedAugust 2, 2016
- 147Amy Poehler Gives Birth to Baby BoyMarisa Laudadio — October 26, 2008
- 148NewsAmy Poehler and Will Arnett Welcome Baby No. 2Eunice Oh — August 6, 2010
- 149Amy Poehler Out-Delights Everyone at Time 100 GalaJada Yuan — April 27, 2011
- 150MagazineNick Kroll, Comedy's Ultimate Tool, Is Actually a Pretty Decent GuyDerek Blasberg — November 1, 2016
- 152Beverly Hills put a spotlight on its celebrity water wasters -- and it workedMatt Stevens — March 14, 2016
- 154Amy Poehler, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson Team Up With Beastie Boys on New Retelling of the Group's Formation StoryTim Chan — November 3, 2018
- 155BookBeastie Boys BookDiamond & Horovitz — Spiegel & Grau — 2018
- 156BookYes PleaseAmy Poehler — Dey Street Books — 2014
- 161MagazineAmy Poehler's Coming-of-Rage Story: Comedy's Subversive Star Is Defining Her Own FeminismMarisa Guthrie — November 24, 2019
- 162NewsAmy Poehler: 'Vanity is the death of comedy'Elizabeth Day — December 13, 2015
- 163How The Cofounders of Amy Poehler's Smart Girls Are Empowering Young WomenElana Lyn Gross — November 7, 2016
- 164Amy Poehler and Friends to Launch New Digital TV Show Aimed at "Smart Girls" and Their ParentsBusiness Wire — September 18, 2008
- 165NewsAmy Poehler's 'Smart Girls' Kicks Off With Mattel's Barbie on BoardTubefilter — November 14, 2008
- 166Legendary Entertainment Buys Amy Poehler's Smart Girls at the PartyMarc Graser — October 13, 2014
- 167'Parks and Recreation' finale: 'Find your team'Robert Lloyd — February 25, 2015
- 168Inside Amy Poehler's Smart Girls 10th Anniversary Dinner (Exclusive)Nicole Pajer — December 11, 2018
- 169Actress Amy Poehler Stars in California Domestic Workers Bill of Rights PSAJorge Rivas — August 24, 2012
- 170Labor of Love \Sharon Lerner — Stanford Social Innovation Review — Summer 2013
- 171NewsCalifornia Governor Signs Domestic Worker Bill of RightsLaura Flanders — September 26, 2013
- 172Amy Poehler Is Doing the Damn ThingMattie Kahn — February 22, 2018
- 175A Candid Memoir From Comedian Amy Poehler? 'Yes Please'October 28, 2014
- 177Amy Poehler's Harvard Graduation Speech — CollegeHumor VideoCollegehumor.com — May 26, 2011
- 178NewsOscars Break Record with 774 New Member Invites, Including Jordan Peele & Gal GadotAdam Chitwood — June 28, 2017
- 179BookYes PleaseAmy Poehler — Dey Street — 2014