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Aubrey Plaza - Hot Video: Prom Date with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett
Aubrey Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American comedian, writer and actress. She has worked with Liz Cackowski and Bill Hader and plays April Ludgate on the TV sitcom Parks and Recreation.
Plaza is originally from Wilmington, Delaware, and is a graduate of Ursuline Academy in 2002 and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006. She is of Puerto Rican and Irish/English descent. She has been performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2004. She also recently began performing stand-up and has appeared at the Laugh Factory and The Improv. In 2008, she was seen in the Improv Everywhere prank "Mobile Desktop", in which she and five other people brought desktop PCs, including a CRT screen, tower computer, keyboard and mouse into a Starbucks and used them just as people use laptops there.
Plaza starred in the online series The Jeannie Tate Show, and ESPN's Mayne Street.
She played Seth Rogen's love interest, Daisy, in 2009's Funny People directed by Judd Apatow. She also has roles in the upcoming comedy features Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (in which she plays Julie Powers) and Derrick Comedy's Mystery Team which debuted at 2009 Sundance.
Films/Shows:
Killswitch (2006) – Girl with massive head wound In Love (2006) – Julie 30 Rock (2006, TV) – NBC Page (1 episode, "Tracy Does Conan") The Jeannie Tate Show (2007, online) – Tina Tate Mayne Street (2008, TV) – Robin Gibney Mystery Team – Kelly Funny People (2009) – Daisy Danby Parks and Recreation (2009–present) – April Ludgate Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - Julie Powers
Given the circumstances, there couldn’t be a less surprising career arc than that of 25-year-old Aubrey Plaza. She attended an all-girls Catholic high school in Delaware, where the official handbook afforded a single loophole—“It didn’t say you couldn’t have fake facial hair. I almost wore my mustache to detention, but I thought that was pushing it”—and has grown up in the YouTube age idolizing funny women. (“Tina and Amy are my heroes.”) Then there were the weekly improv classes in Philly. (“I researched how people got on SNL—their bios always said they came from improv.”) As wry as Sarah Silverman and as grounded as any Groundling, Plaza, a deadpan ace, was first noticed by SNL regular Bill Hader, whose wife, Maggie Carey, cast her in the perfectly absurd Web series The Jeannie Tate Show.
Plaza costarred in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, snagging the role of a stand-up comic with a tape of her first gig. This month, she’s back in NBC’s Amy Poehler–ized Parks and Recreation, and she’ll continue her costar-of-every-hilarious-actor tour with Michael Cera in next year’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Celluloid suits her, but she’ll be damned if she’s giving up the mic. “With stand-up, it doesn’t matter who you are,” she says. “If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it’s your job to make them laugh. It’s kind of bada$$.”
Aubrey Plaza The 'Parks and Rec' intern perfected craft online
A master of the above-it-all annoyed-teenager look, Aubrey Plaza found a way to take her disgruntled millennial girl routine to primetime in the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation." It's a character type the improv-oriented comedian first honed on the Web series "The Jeannie Tate Show," where she plays the troubled stepdaughter to the show's titular soccer mom, developing it even further on a trashy MTV-style dating show satire she wrote and directed. "I am not sick of roles as the angry teenager; I could be one for the rest of my life," quips Plaza, who explains, "I have a younger sister who I draw a lot of inspiration from."
Sure enough, Plaza jumped at another droll adolescent role opposite Michael Cera in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." And though the acting attention is heating up, Plaza still considers herself a student of the form.
She spent the 2004-05 season interning on the set of "Saturday Night Live," being a wallflower while quietly observing the pros in action. "People on 'SNL' remarked how quiet I was and were shocked to learn that I was in comedy," she reports.
And although she studied improv with the Upright Citizens Brigade, Plaza decided to branch into standup after landing the role of Seth Rogen's girlfriend in "Funny People." Director Judd Apatow wanted an actual standup for the part, so Plaza made a point to film herself onstage at a comedy club in Queens.
Plaza's early material has been dark and rebellious, reminiscent of those grunge comediennes who came before her, such as Janeane Garofalo and Sarah Silverman (in fact, she does a killer impression of the latter's potty-mouthed persona).
"My sense of humor is a little strange," Plaza admits. "I have to remind myself that if I think it's funny, then I shouldn't worry about others getting it."
POV: "My purse is so heavy that when I put it on the passenger seat of the car while I am driving, the airbag light goes on because it thinks there's a person there."
She's a stand-up comedian who is starting to get a little bit more famous. Check out her hilarious Sarah Silverman impression:
She's a currently unknown actress who's found some experience with comics mostly. Such as the Jeannie Tate show:
Here she plays Tina Tate on The Jeannie Tate Show:
She might be unknown now, but after "Parks & Recreation," "Funny People," and "Scott Pilgrim VS The World" are seen, she's going to be very famous.
Aubrey Plaza of Small Wonder Productions is an actress and stand-up comedian who began acting at age 8.
She might have first met Andy Samberg when she interned at Saturday Night Live as a set designer.
Aubrey Plaza is an actress and comedian who has worked extensively with the Upright Citizens Brigade. On January 14, 2008, The Hollywood Reporter printed Plaza would join the cast of the untitled Office spinoff. She will play an intern in a small town's park and recreation department. Her boss will be played by Amy Poehler.
Also in January 2008, Plaza was added to the cast Scott Pilgrim vs the World. In Scott Pilgrim she will play the secondary character's (played by Michael Cera) girlfriend with a hot temper.
Here Aubrey is in Anti-Drug Dog, a fake commercial:
So she probably got onto the show (Parks & Recreations) due to her work with the Upright Citizens Brigade, which is owned by Amy Poehler. So Amy Poehler is still her boss (on the new show too).
QUOTES:
"The Internet is pretty much how I got where I am." —Aubrey Plaza, on her career
"I play a kind of a young Janeane Garofalo. The great thing about the part is that she’s the girlfriend, but she’s really funny too. And Judd lets me say crazy things." —Aubrey Plaza, on her role in Funny People
And here is Aubrey as Daddy's Little Judge:
Plaza, 24, is the daughter of Bernadette Plaza of Woodbrook and David Plaza of Alapocas; and her younger sisters are Natalie and Renee (see Renee's comment below).
Plaza, a veteran in improv and in acting, is in the upcoming Judd Apatow movie "Funny People."
She graduated in 2006 from New York University and while living in New York has done a variety of things: A set design internship at "Saturday Night Live," a play (the Natalie Wood role in what she called a bad adaptation of "Rebel Without a Cause" -- so bad that when one character yelled "shoot him," the audience would chime in), a walk-on on "30 Rock," (she was leading a tour, just like she used to do as an NBC page), independent film, work for the Web (such as "Jeannie Tate," a series about a soccer mom with a talk show in her minivan) and live comedy (such as Bombardo, an all-female improv group).
As a comic, Plaza said she was inspired by Janeane Garofalo and used some of her bits early in her career.
She's been to Los Angeles enough to appear before casting directors ("it's like dating") that she cracks wise about that city, too. "I like driving in L.A. At least you have normal thoughts in the morning: 'I hope I'm not late.' In New York, on my way to work in the morning on the subway, I hope that homeless guy doesn't hit me with that mannequin hand."
Plaza's breakthrough role might be that part in "Funny People": A young Delawarean who improvises and does stand-up comedy (does that sound familiar?).
The cast did some public bonding together, which generated this squib in Entertainment Weekly about "three of its leading actors, Seth Rogan, Adam Sandler, and Jonah Hill. ... The yuksters made two appearances at the L.A. outpost of Upright Citizens Brigade (capacity: 92) along with 'The King of Queens' star Kevin James and newcomer Aubrey Plaza, all so they could hone their stand-up skills."
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