Actress of The Week: Jenny Slate

Jenny Sarah Slate (lahir 25 Maret 1982) adalah seorang aktris, komedian, dan penulis Amerika. Dia telah memainkan Mona-Lisa Saperstein di Parks and Recreation. Dia adalah anggota pemeran di Saturday Night Live selama musim 2009-10 dan sejak itu muncul di acara-acara seperti House of Lies, Married, Bob's Burgers, Kroll Show, Bored to Death dan Big Mouth serta film-film Zootopia, The Secret Life of Pets dan Obvious Child.

Slate lahir pada 25 Maret 1982 di Milton, Massachusetts, dari Ron Slate (lahir 1950), seorang pengusaha dan penyair yang bekerja sebagai wakil presiden komunikasi global untuk EMC Corporation dan kemudian sebagai CEO dari sebuah startup biotek, dan Nancy (née Gilson), seorang ahli keramik. Dia adalah anak tengah dari tiga bersaudara, dengan seorang kakak perempuan bernama Abigail dan adik perempuan bernama Stacey. Ia dibesarkan dalam keluarga Yahudi. Salah satu neneknya lahir di Kuba, dari keluarga Rusia dan Turki, dan dibesarkan di Prancis. Setelah lulus dari Milton Academy sebagai pembaca pidato perpisahan, Slate menghadiri Columbia University sebagai jurusan sastra, di mana ia membantu membentuk grup improvisasi Fruit Paunch, membintangi Varsity Show dan bertemu Gabe Liedman, yang akan menjadi mitra komedi. Slate lulus dari Columbia pada tahun 2004.

Pada September 2012, Slate menikah dengan pembuat film Dean Fleischer-Camp. Pasangan ini mengumumkan perpisahan mereka pada Mei 2016. 

Slate memiliki hubungan yang tidak aktif lagi dengan co-star Gifted Chris Evans dari 2016 hingga 2018.

Dia pernah tinggal di Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, sebelum pindah dengan Fleischer-Camp ke Los Angeles pada awal 2010-an

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Marcel (voice)	Short film; also writer
2011	Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked	Zoe
2012	This Means War	Emily
	The Lorax	Mrs. Wiggins (voice)
2013	Bitch	Molly Horner	Short film
2014	Obvious Child	Donna Stern	Newport Beach Film Festival Award for Breakout Actress Santa Barbara International Film Festival Award for Virtuoso Award Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Comedic Actress Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Nominated—Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor Nominated—Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Breakthrough Performance on Camera Nominated—Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screen Couple
	The Longest Week	Jocelyn
2015	Digging for Fire	Yoga Couple
2016	Joshy	Jodi
	Zootopia	Dawn Bellwether (voice)
	My Blind Brother	Rose
	The Secret Life of Pets	Gidget (voice)
	Brain on Fire	Margo
2017	Landline	Dana Jacobs
	The Polka King	Marla Lewan
	The Lego Batman Movie	Harley Quinn (voice)
	Gifted	Bonnie
	Aardvark	Emily Milburton
	Despicable Me 3	Valerie Da Vinci (voice)
2018	Hotel Artemis	Morgan
	Venom	Dr. Dora Skirth
2019	The Sunlit Night	Frances	Also producer
	The Secret Life of Pets 2	Gidget (voice)	In production
	The Ark and the Aardvark	Mitzi (voice)	In production
	Toy Story 4	TBA (voice)	In production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Starved	Member of Belt Tighteners	Uncredited Episode: "The Breatharians"
2008	The Whitest Kids U' Know	Trevor's Date	1 episode
2009	Important Things with Demetri Martin	Bride	Episode: "Chairs"
	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Jenny the Page	8 episodes
	Brothers	Annette	2 episodes
2009–10	Saturday Night Live	Various	22 episodes
2009	Bored to Death	Stella	5 episodes
2011	Ugly Americans	Jaclyn (voice)	Episode: "Lily and the Beast"
	The Electric Company	Runner	Episode: "Off Target"
2012	Raising Hope	Joan	Episode: "Throw Maw Maw from the House"
2012, 2016	Girls	Tally Schifrin	2 episodes
2012–present	Bob's Burgers	Tammy Larsen (voice)	36 episodes
2013	Hello Ladies	Amelia Gordon	4 episodes
	Super Fun Night	Helen-Alice	Unaired CBS pilot
2013–15	Kroll Show	Various	7 episodes
	House of Lies	Sarah Guggenheim	9 episodes
	Parks and Recreation	Mona-Lisa Saperstein	8 episodes
2013–16	Drunk History	Herself	3 episodes
2014	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Bianca	Episode: "Undercover"
	The Getaway	Herself	Episode: "Jenny Slate In Barcelona"
2014–15	Married	Jess	14 episodes
2015–19	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Pony Head (voice)	20 episodes
2016–18	Adventure Time	Huntress Wizard (voice)	5 episodes
2016	Animals.	Snake (voice)	Episode: "Squirrels. Part I."
2016–17	Lady Dynamite	Karen Grisham	4 episodes
2017	Comrade Detective	Jane (voice)	6 episodes
2017–present	Big Mouth	Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice)	31 episodes
2018–present	Muppet Babies	Miss Nanny (voice)	Main role[41]
2019	The Simpsons	Piper Paisley (voice)	Episode: "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"