Biography
A comedic powerhouse with real vocal talent, Ana Gasteyer springboarded from The Groundlings to "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ), where she quickly established herself as a first-rate impersonator, nailing wickedly clever takes on Martha Stewart and Celine Dion. Among her breakout characters included the earnestly awful folk singer Cinder Calhoun, Molly Shannon's soft-spoken NPR "Delicious Dish" co-host, and along with Will Ferrell, a …
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Career Milestones
2009 | Cast in "Girl Crazy," a production of Encores! at New York City Center | |
2009 | Cast as Kitty Dean in the Broadway play, "The Royal Family" | |
2007 | Performed in the Stephen Sondheim musical "Passion" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater | |
2006 | Reprised the role as Elphaba in "Wicked" on Broadway | |
2006 | Starred as Mrs. Peachum in a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" on Broadway | |
2005 | Starred as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the sit-down production of "Wicked" at the Oriental Theater in Chicago | |
2005 | Co-starred with Steven Weber in Showtime's movie adaptation of "Reefer Madness," an off-Broadway musical that was itself based on a hysterical 1930s film | |
2004 | Played the mother of Lindsay Lohan in the feature film "Mean Girls"; written by SNL castmate Tina Fey | |
2001 | Featured in the comedy "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" | |
2001 | Joined the Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show"; replaced Joan Jett in the role of Columbia | |
2000 | Acted in the comedy feature "What Women Want" | |
2000 | Appeared as herself in a two-episode arc of "3rd Rock From the Sun" (NBC) that takes the out of this world gang to Manhattan | |
2000 | Featured in the independent "Home Sweet Hoboken"; screened at Sundance | |
1999 | Played Nixon's longtime secretary Rosemary Woods in the Watergate comedy "Dick" | |
1999 | Thanks to her memorable impersonation of Celine Dion, was featured in the music special "VH1 Divas Live '99" | |
1998 | Performed as fictional singer-songwriter Cinder Calhoun on the Lilith Fair tour after the character debuted on the "SNL" segment "Weekend Update" | |
1998 | Had a featured supporting role as rodent expert Mel in the live-action Disney comedy "Meet the Deedles" | |
1996 | Was a regular cast member on the long-running sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" (NBC) | |
1996 | Guest starred on the FOX drama "Party of Five" | |
| Was a member of The Groundlings sketch comedy troupe | ||
1995 | Was featured in the legendary "Soup Nazi" episode of "Seinfeld" (NBC) | |
1995 | Feature film debut in the romantic comedy "Courting Courtney" (released 1998) | |
| Made stage debut as Alice in the national touring company of "The Real Live Brady Bunch" | ||