Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress, comedian, and singer. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), and later played supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006). Since leaving SNL in 2007, Rudolph has appeared in various films, including Grown Ups (2010) and its 2013 sequel, Bridesmaids (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), Sisters (2015), CHiPs (2017), Life of the Party (2018), Wine Country (2019), and Disenchanted (2022). She has also provided voice acting roles for the animated films Shrek the Third (2007), Big Hero 6 (2014), The Angry Birds Movie (2016), The Emoji Movie (2017), The Willoughbys (2020), The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021), and Luca (2021). From 2011 to 2012, Rudolph starred as Ava Alexander in the NBC sitcom Up All Night. In 2016, she co-hosted the variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short. Since 2017, she has voiced various characters in the Netflix animated sitcom Big Mouth, including Connie the Hormone Monstress, which won her Primetime Emmy Awards in 2020 and 2021. For her portrayal of United States senator and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Rudolph appeared in the NBC fantasy comedy series The Good Place (2018–2020), for which she received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. From 2019 to 2021, she starred in the Fox animated sitcom Bless the Harts. In 2022, she began starring in the comedy series Loot, also serving as an executive producer.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Good Hang with Amy Poehler as
- 2025 · SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2025 · SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night as Self
- 2024 · Dream Productions as Jean Dewberry (voice)
- 2024 · Dinner Time Live with David Chang as Self
- 2023 · Good Burger 2 as Maya Rudolph
- 2022 · Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery as Maya Rudolph
- 2020 · Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine as Andrea Steele
- 2019 · Bless the Harts as Betty Hart (voice)
- 2019 · The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience as Val Gal
- 2019 · The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part as Mom
- 2018 · Forever as June
- 2018 · The Happytime Murders as Bubbles
- 2018 · Life of the Party as Christine Davenport
- 2017 · A Christmas Story Live! as Mother Parker
- 2017 · The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature as Precious (voice)
- 2017 · Tour de Pharmacy as Lucy Flerng
- 2017 · The Gong Show as Self - Judge
- 2017 · CHiPS as Sgt. Hernandez
- 2016 · Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as Deborah
- 2016 · Maggie's Plan as Felicia
- 2015 · Sisters as Brinda
- 2015 · The Grinder as Jillian
- 2015 · Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life - An All-Star Grammy Salute as Self
- 2014 · The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas as Giggles
- 2014 · The Maya Rudolph Show as Self
- 2014 · The Nut Job as Precious (voice)
- 2013 · The Way Way Back as Caitlyn
- 2011 · Billy on the Street as Self
- 2011 · Zookeeper as Mollie the Giraffe (voice)
- 2010 · The Women of SNL as Various (archive footage)
- 2009 · The Minnie Riperton Story as
- 2009 · Away We Go as Verona De Tessant
- 2004 · Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie as Kanshasha X
- 2003 · Duplex as Tara
- 2000 · Chuck & Buck as Jamila
- Future · Playing POTUS as Self
- 2025 · Downey Wrote That as Self
- 2025 · Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
- 2024 · IF as Alligator (voice)
- 2024 · The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy as Dr. Vlam (voice)
- 2023 · Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2023 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem as Cynthia Utrom (voice)
- 2023 · Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
- 2023 · Digman! as G.A.W.D. (voice)
- 2022 · Disenchanted as Malvina Monroe
- 2022 · Baymax! as Cass (voice)
- 2022 · Baymax! as Aunt Cass
- 2022 · Loot as Molly Wells / Molly Novak
- 2022 · Human Resources as Bonnie LaCienega (voice)
- 2022 · Human Resources as Grace (voice)
- 2022 · Human Resources as Traci (voice)
- 2022 · Human Resources as Dante's Dick (voice)
- 2022 · Human Resources as Connie LaCienega (voice)
- 2021 · MacGruber as Casey Janine Fitzpatrick
- 2021 · A Clüsterfünke Christmas as Shania Gary (Angel)
- 2021 · Baking It as Self - Host
- 2021 · Licorice Pizza as Gale
- 2021 · Luca as Daniela Paguro (voice)
- 2021 · The Mitchells vs. the Machines as Linda (voice)
- 2020 · Eater's Guide to the World as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Hubie Halloween as Mrs. Hennessey
- 2020 · The Willoughbys as Nanny (voice)
- 2020 · Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince as Self
- 2019 · Thirsty as The Mosquito
- 2019 · The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Matilda (voice)
- 2019 · Lights Out with David Spade as Self - Panelist
- 2019 · Booksmart as Motivational Voice (voice)
- 2019 · Wine Country as Naomi
- 2018 · Love, Gilda as Self
- 2017 · Big Hero 6 The Series as Aunt Cass (voice)
- 2017 · Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs as Self
- 2017 · Big Mouth as Diane Birch / Constance the Hormone Monstress (voice)
- 2017 · Cabiria, Charity, Chastity as Chastity
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · The Emoji Movie as Smiler (voice)
- 2017 · We Don't Belong Here as Joanne
- 2017 · Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special as Maya Rudolph
- 2016 · The Good Place as Judge Gen
- 2016 · My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea as Verti (voice)
- 2016 · Mr. Pig as Eunice
- 2016 · Maya & Marty as Self - Host
- 2016 · The Angry Birds Movie as Matilda (voice)
- 2016 · Angie Tribeca as Jackie Wilder
- 2015 · A Very Murray Christmas as The Lounge Singer
- 2015 · Documentary Now! as Anita
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Spoils Before Dying as Fresno Foxglove
- 2015 · Live from New York! as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Dionne Warwick
- 2015 · Strange Magic as Griselda (voice)
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Inherent Vice as Petunia Leeway
- 2014 · Big Hero 6 as Aunt Cass (voice)
- 2014 · We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Brooklyn Nine-Nine as U.S. Marshal Karen Haas
- 2013 · Grown Ups 2 as Deanne McKenzie
- 2013 · Turbo as Burn (voice)
- 2013 · Hollywood Game Night as Self
- 2013 · Drunk History as Griselda Blanco
- 2012 · Comedy Bang! Bang! as Self
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2012 · Friends with Kids as Leslie
- 2011 · Up All Night as Ava Alexander
- 2011 · Bridesmaids as Lillian Donovan
- 2011 · Fight for Your Right Revisited as Girl in Limo 3
- 2011 · When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren as Maya Rudolph
- 2011 · Portlandia as Anita
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · Grown Ups as Deanne McKenzie
- 2010 · MacGruber as Casey
- 2010 · Presidential Reunion as Michelle Obama
- 2009 · Cubed as Maya Rudolph
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler as Various (archive footage)
- 2009 · Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2009 · The Black List: Volume Two as Self
- 2008 · Prop 8: The Musical as California Gays and The People That Love Them
- 2008 · Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday as Oprah Winfrey
- 2008 · Kath & Kim as Athena Scooberman
- 2007 · Shrek the Third as Rapunzel (voice)
- 2006 · Idiocracy as Rita
- 2006 · A Prairie Home Companion as Molly
- 2006 · Campus Ladies as
- 2004 · 50 First Dates as Stacy
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · The Religetables as
- 2002 · NBC 75th Anniversary Special as Self
- 2000 · TV Funhouse as Oprah Winfrey (voice)
- 2000 · Duets as Omaha Karaoke Hostess
- 2000 · City of Angels as Grace Patterson
- 1999 · Action as Phina
- 1999 · Family Guy as Chloe (voice)
- 1997 · As Good as It Gets as Policewoman
- 1997 · The Devil's Child as Holly
- 1997 · Gattaca as Delivery Nurse
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as Leah Martine
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Julia (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self