Maya Rudolph

At 51 years old, Maya Rudolph has this physical status:

Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress, comedian, and singer.

Rudolph first appeared in the mid-1990s as a member of the alternative rock band The Rentals, before joining The Groundlings improv troupe later in the decade.

Rudolph appeared in Grown Ups (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Vineyard Home Companion (2006), and Wine Country (2010), after leaving Saturday Night Live in 2007, Rudolph appeared in Grown Ups (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Inherent Vice (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), a Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006).

Shrek the Third (2007) and Big Hero 6 (2014), she also lent her voice to the animated films Shrek the Third (2007) and Big Hero 6 (2014).

Rudolph appeared on television as Ava Alexander on the NBC sitcom Up All Night from 2011 to 2012, and co-hosted her own variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short in 2016.

Rudolph has appeared on NBC's The Good Place since 2018, for which she has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Early life

Rudolph was born in Gainesville, Florida, to singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and composer Richard Rudolph. Her mother, who was African-American, and her father, Ashkenazi Jewish. Sidney Rudolph, a philanthropist who once owned all of Wendy's and Rudy's restaurants in Miami-Dade County, Florida, was her paternal grandfather. Her great-grandfather, who was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, changed his surname from "Rudashevsky" to "Rudolph" and was one of the founding members of Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Teena Marie, Rudolph's godmother, was a R&B singer.

Rudolph's parents were moved to Los Angeles, California, when she and her brother Marc were very young, and they grew up mainly in the Westwood neighborhood. "Lovin' You" is Riperton's word at the end of the album, while Riperton repeats "Maya." She incorporated it into her Midnight Special appearances. She died of breast cancer on July 12, 1979, just weeks before Maya's seventh birthday. Rudolph graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, where she befriended classmates Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black. She enrolled in Porter College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in photography in 1995.

Personal life

Rudolph has been in a long association with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson since 2001. They and their four children live in the San Fernando Valley.

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Career

Rudolph was in the improv troupe the Groundlings, where she met future Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte. She joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player for the final three episodes of the 1999–2000 season through 2007. She has made several cameo appearances over the years. Since the 45th-season premiere, she has occasionally portrayed Vice President Kamala Harris, a performance acknowledged by Harris.

She has appeared in many other television shows, including the CBS medical drama series City of Angels and Chicago Hope. She had small parts in Chuck & Buck, Gattaca, As Good as It Gets, Duplex, and Duets; she was also a music supervisor for Duets. Her first prominent film role came in 2006 with A Prairie Home Companion. Earlier, she had costarred with Luke Wilson in the 2005 Mike Judge sci-fi comedy Idiocracy, although that film was shelved until September 2006 and then only given a limited release. She also guest-starred as Rapunzel in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third. She guest-starred as Julia in The Simpsons episode "The Homer of Seville". Rudolph guest-starred as character Athena Scooberman in NBC's Kath & Kim, and starred in the film Away We Go with The Office star John Krasinski. In 2010, she appeared in Grown Ups starring Adam Sandler, where she played the wife of Chris Rock's character. In 2011, she appeared in Bridesmaids with Saturday Night Live colleague Kristen Wiig, and in 2013 she played a supporting role in The Way, Way Back as the girlfriend of Sam Rockwell's character. She co-starred in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. Rudolph's self-titled variety show television pilot aired on May 19, 2014, but the show did not go beyond that. It was later announced that she would star in an NBC variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short, which debuted on May 31, 2016. Her next series, Forever, premiered on September 14, 2018, on Amazon Video. As a voice actress, she had various roles in the Netflix animated series Big Mouth, premiering in 2017.

In 2018, she performed in advertisements for Ruby Tuesday and Seventh Generation. In 2019 she appeared as the mother in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. In 2021 she voiced Linda Mitchell, mother of two, in Sony Pictures' The Mitchells vs. the Machines, and Daniela Paguro in the Pixar film Luca. In July 2022 she appeared as the star of Loot, an Apple TV+ series. Upcoming in 2022, Rudolph will portray Malvina Monroe, the antagonist of Disenchanted, the sequel to the 2007 Disney film Enchanted.

Prior to joining Saturday Night Live, Rudolph was a backing singer (1995–1999) and briefly a keyboardist in the band the Rentals, with whom she toured. She appears in music videos for the songs "Waiting" and "Please Let That Be You". She sang backing vocals for "Barcelona" and "My Head Is in the Sun", both from the album Seven More Minutes. In 2004, she recorded a track with the Rentals frontman Matt Sharp, including a cover of Tegan and Sara's "Not Tonight". She performed "Together in Pooping" and "Little Roundworm" with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel) on his album Come Poop With Me. She is in a Prince cover band called Princess with her friend Gretchen Lieberum.

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