Ana Kristina Gasteyer is an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best known as a cast member on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002 and for co-starring as Sheila Shay on the ABC sitcom Suburgatory.
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TV Shows
Suburgatory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Celebrity Jeopardy!
Star Sign
Taurus
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You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita -- people shut up about it already.
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I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.
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performing as Elphaba the wicked witch in the Broadway production of "Wicked" [October 2006]
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Currently starring as Elphaba in the Chicago production of "Wicked". [July 2005]
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Playing "Mrs. Peachum" in the new Broadway revival of "Threepenny Opera", translated by Wallace Shawn. [March 2006]
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She revealed in an episode of the National Public Radio program "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me" that her audition for Saturday Night Live (1975) included impressions of an NPR talk radio host (similar to the character in the famous "Delicious Dish" sketch), Martha Stewart and Cokie Roberts.
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She was nominated for a 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Passion" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
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She was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Wicked!", at the Broadway in Chicago-Wicked Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Gave birth to a son, Ulysses McKittrick, in March, 2008.
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Her father, Phil Gasteyer, is the mayor of Corrales in New Mexico where he and Ana's mother, Mariana (an artist), moved in their retirement.
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Although she used a mock shrill, off-key singing voice while paired up hilariously with music teacher "husband" Will Ferrell on SNL, Ana actually possesses an incredible vocal instrument and wowed them in a 2005 Chicago production of "Wicked" as the Wicked Witch, and, more recently, as Mrs. Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" on Broadway.
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Earned her bachelor of science in speech, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL.
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Involved in Paul Warshauer's improvisational comedy, "Me-Ow", show at Northwestern University.
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In Mean Girls (2004), she played a tenured professor at her real-life alma mater, Northwestern University.
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August 2002: Announced that she would not be returning for a new season of Saturday Night Live (1975). She had been on the show for 6 years.
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Ana delivered a 9 pound, 1 ounce baby girl named Frances Mary McKittrick in June 2002.
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She is the first cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975) to be pregnant while on the show.
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Her first name is pronounced "On-uh".
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Used to be friends with President Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy Carter, while the Carter family lived in Washington, D.C. She once even played the violin for Anwar Sadat, former president of Egypt.
TV Movie performer: "The Stuff", "Jimmy Takes A Hit", "The Orgy", "The Brownie Song", "Murder", "The Stuff Reprise", "Tell 'Em The Truth", "Reefer Madness Reprise"
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Christopher Walken
2004
TV Special performer: "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" - uncredited
$1.5 Million
