Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊəˈdɛbəri/EYE-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee;[1] born October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, and television writer. She has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear since 2022, for which she has won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
In 2014, Edebiri acted in an episode of the series Defectives. Edebiri started her career as a stand-up comedian, and performed a stand-up set on Comedy Central's Up Next.[13][3] Edeberi's scripted digital series Ayo and Rachel Are Single began airing on Comedy Central in May 2020, which she cowrote and co-starred in with her friend and fellow comedian Rachel Sennott.[14] She made her film debut in 2020 comedy-drama Shithouse, in an uncredited role.[15] Edebiri co-hosts a podcast called Iconography with Olivia Craighead that features interviews with guests in conversation about their shared personal icons.[3][14] The podcast is produced by Forever Dog and the second season was released in 2020.[16]
A television writer, she has written for the sole seasons of The Rundown with Robin Thede and NBC's Sunnyside.[17][3] Edebiri joined the writing staff of Big Mouth for the show's fourth season.[18] After Jenny Slate stepped down from voicing the character Missy so the role could be played by a black actress, Edebiri auditioned and was selected as the replacement in August 2020.[17][19] Her voice acting as the character began at the end of the show's fourth season.[17] She was a writer and actress in Dickinson's second season on Apple TV+, where she first worked with Christopher Storer, who went on to create The Bear.[6] She acted in a supporting role in the 2022 film adaptation of the Jennifer E. Smith YA novel Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between.[20]
Edebiri hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Jennifer Lopez in 2024.[41] In a sketch Edebiri indirectly acknowledged having criticized Lopez previously on the podcast Scam Goddess.[42][43]
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^@DemSocialists (October 21, 2021). "Saturday night at 8 PM ET join us for Solidarity Ensues, a fundraiser for our DSA campaigns to help them out before Election Day. hosted by @sandyhonig and @PTRSMTH, w/ appearances by @ayoedebiri, @Indiawaltonbflo, @jamieloftusHELP, and more! Sign up now!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^@DSA_LosAngeles (July 2, 2020). "Have you joined our Stimulus Solidarity Fundraiser yet??? So far @party_harderson, @ayoedebiri, @ihatejoelkim, and @NaomiandAndy have come by to hang. And there is PLENTY more to come" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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