Kristen Schaal
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Born | Kristen Joy Schaal January 24, 1978 Longmont, Colorado, U.S. |
Education | University of Colorado, Boulder Northwestern University (BA) |
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Years active | 1999–present |
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Children | 1 |
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Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/;[1] born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Known for her distinctive childlike voice, she has voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls. She also played Mel on Flight of the Conchords, The Guide on What We Do in the Shadows, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler, and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provided several voices for BoJack Horseman; for the character of Sarah Lynn, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game Anthem.
Early life
Schaal was born on January 24, 1978 in Longmont, Colorado,[2] to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry.[3] She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado.[3] Her father is a construction worker and her mother a secretary.[4]
Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older.[4] She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year[5] and graduated from Northwestern University.[3] She then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".[6]
Career
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Live comedy
In 2006, Schaal performed at the 2006 HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, where she won the award for "Best Alternative Comedian".[7][8] She was also the winner of the second annual Andy Kaufman Award (hosted by the New York Comedy Festival), Best Female Stand-up at the 2006 Nightlife Awards in New York City, and "Best Female Stand Up Comedian" at the 2007 ECNY Awards.[9][10] At the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, she won the Barry Award for her show Kristen Schaal As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before, tying with Nina Conti.[11] Also in 2006, Schaal appeared on the first season of the Comedy Central show Live at Gotham.[12] She co-hosts the weekly variety show Hot Tub in Los Angeles, which was voted "Best Variety Show of 2005" by a Time-Out New York's readers poll.[13][14] She also performs at the Peoples Improv Theater on the improv team, "Big Black Car".[15] She is a founding member of the theatre company The Striking Viking Story Pirates, which adapts stories by children into sketches and songs.[16]
Schaal performed live at the Edinburgh Fringe 2007, where she was one of six acts (chosen from over two hundred American productions at the Fringe) requested to perform at the US Consul General-sponsored "Fringe USA" Showcase.[17]
On her return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2008, Schaal was nominated for the If.comedy award for Kristen Schaal And Kurt Braunohler: Double Down Hearts.[18]
Schaal has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 in aid of Amnesty International, and at the Bonnaroo 2009 music festival.[19][20] In 2010, Schaal appeared as a stand-up comic on John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show and at the Solid Sound Festival at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.[21][22][23]
Film, TV, and radio
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In 2001, Schaal had a bit role in the film Kate & Leopold. [24][25]Schaal appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords as the stalker-fan Mel, a role which earned her an EWwy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009.[4][17][26] She was also a credited consultant and writer for Season 11 of South Park,[27][28][29] and appeared on the BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[30]
She made her first appearance as a "special commentator" on Comedy Central's The Daily Show on March 13, 2008, often presented in recurring appearances as its news team's "Senior Women's Issues Correspondent".[28][31] In 2008, she made an appearance on Good News Week during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[32] In October 2008 she appeared in Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008.[19] She also appeared on an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about sexual education, talking about abstinence and non-abstinence only education.[33]
Other film and television credits include Aqua Teen Hunger Force,[34] Snake 'n' Bacon,[27] Norbit, Get Him to the Greek,[35] Conviction, Cheap Seats,[36] Freak Show, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant,[37] Adam and Steve,[38] The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,[39] Delirious,[40] Good News Week (Australia), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,[41][42] Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Education of Max Bickford,[43] Comedy Central's Contest Searchlight,[44] Ugly Betty,[45] How I Met Your Mother,[46] MTV's Human Giant,[47] and Mad Men.[41][42] She was a contributor to the sketch/music series The Nighttime Clap on the Fuse music network.[citation needed]
She appeared on Fuse's original comedy series The P.A.. She appeared in two TV pilots written and directed by Jersey City comedian Dan McNamara – The Calderons and Redeeming Rainbow, both of which were screened as official selections at the 2006 and 2007 New York Television Festivals.[citation needed] She appeared in television commercials for T-Mobile,[48] Wendy's, RadioShack, Starburst,[42] Sony Xperia,[49] and Zaxby's.[citation needed] She made an appearance, in April 2008, on the IFC sketch comedy show The Whitest Kids U' Know.[50] On April 3, 2009, she taped an episode of Comedy Central Presents.[51] In 2010, she added her voice to the PBS Kids GO! series WordGirl as Victoria Best, a child prodigy whose parents taught her to be the best at everything that she does.[52] Schaal voiced 12-year-old Mabel Pines on Disney Channel's hit TV series Gravity Falls.[53][54] She currently voices the character Louise on the FOX Network series Bob's Burgers.[55]
She starred in A. D. Miles' MyDamnChannel.com series Horrible People.[56] In October 2008, Schaal appeared in an episode of Spicks and Specks.[57] On June 10, 2009, Schaal broadcast her first radio show, High Five!!, on Sirius XM Radio's 'RawDog' channel with co-host Kurt Braunohler.[58] Schaal stars in her own web series, Penelope Princess of Pets, one episode of which doubled as the video for the New Pornographers' "Mutiny, I Promise You".[59] She voiced Trixie the Triceratops in Toy Story 3 and Pumpkin Witch and Palace Witch in Shrek Forever After.[60][61] She was also in the music video for Joey Ramone's "New York City."[62] She also guest-starred in the Modern Family episode "Fifteen Percent", as well as the music video for "Conversation 16" by The National.[63][64][65] Schaal guest starred on the MC Frontalot album Solved.[66] She was featured with Kurt Braunohler on the Radiolab episode "Loops".[67] Schaal was in a commercial for the Xperia Play version of Minecraft.[68]
Schaal guest starred on The Simpsons May 8, 2011 episode "Homer Scissorhands," in which she plays Taffy, a love interest of Milhouse.[69] She is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Kristen Schall".[69] This prompted Simpsons writers to issue her a unique apology on the next week's episode in which Bart's chalkboard joke in the intro to the show states "It's Kristen Schaal, not Kristen Schall."[69] Schaal voiced Shannon, a girl who goes on a date with Gru, in Despicable Me 2; she then appeared in a music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2014 song "Tacky", a parody of Pharrell Williams' "Happy".[70][71] In 2013, Schaal guest starred in the two-part episode "Sea Tunt" of Archer, lending her voice to a character named Tiffy.[72][73] In 2014, Schaal co-starred alongside Casey Wilson, Danielle Schneider, Tymberlee Hill, Andrea Savage, and Angela Kinsey in the first season of the Hulu original series The Hotwives of Orlando.[74] She co-starred alongside Will Forte in the FOX comedy The Last Man on Earth, which premiered on March 1, 2015.[75]
Schaal also voices the character Sarah Lynn in the Netflix original animated series BoJack Horseman.[76] In 2017, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for her performance as Sarah Lynn.[77] Schaal appeared in A Walk in the Woods (2015) as hiker Mary Ellen.[78] In 2016, Schaal was a panelist on episode 1 of the British comedy show The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, a spinoff of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.[79] In 2017, Schaal was on Episode 49 of Good One: A Podcast About Jokes Archived 2019-01-27 at the Wayback Machine called "Kristen Schaal and Her Singing, Dancing Bird". Archived from the original on 2019-01-27. Retrieved 2019-01-27.[80][81] Schaal voices Molly in the Snap Originals series Death Hacks,[82] co-starring with Thomas Middleditch. In 2020, she played the daughter of George Carlin's character in the sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music and guested on the first episode of Netflix's Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun.[83][84][85] Schaal was featured in the episode "The Plantars Check In" in the animated series Amphibia in which she voiced Bella the Bellhop.[86] Schaal appeared as a guest star in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? on the episode "The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!".[87] Schaal was featured on the episode "Dead Mall" in the animated series Bless the Harts where she voiced Stacey.[88] Schaal currently stars as Number Two in the Disney+ series The Mysterious Benedict Society and regularly guest stars as the Guide on the FX series What We Do in the Shadows.[89][90]
Books
Schaal wrote a book of humor, The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, with her husband, former Daily Show writer Rich Blomquist. It was published in July 2010 by Chronicle Books.[17][91] She originally intended for them to write the book under pseudonyms, "because I don't want anyone to imagine me doing those things",[28] but realized it would be harder to promote the book without using their real names.
Personal life
Schaal has been married to Rich Blomquist since 2012.[91][92] On February 11, 2018, she gave birth to a daughter named Ruby.[93]
In 2017, during a charity stream hosted by Ethan Klein, Schaal revealed that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a ruptured fallopian tube during an unspecified recording session for Gravity Falls, losing at least two litres of blood, and she underwent emergency surgery after being rushed to the hospital.[94]
Filmography
Films
TV
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001–2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Valerie Holmes | 3 episodes |
2004 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Abby | Episode: "Brotherhood" |
2005 | Cheap Seats: Without Ron Parker | Emily | Episode: "Dog Show/World Beard and Mustache Championship" |
2006 | Six Degrees | Gail | 2 episodes |
Conviction | Allie Rubinoff | Episode: "Madness" | |
Ugly Betty | Nancy | Episode: "Pilot" | |
Freak Show | Various voices | 7 episodes | |
2007 | Scott Bateman Presents | 2 episodes | |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Alana Binder | Episode: "30" | |
Human Giant | Girl in Doritos Commercial | Episode: "Lil 9-11" | |
Mad Men | Nannette | Episode: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | |
How I Met Your Mother | Laura Girard | Episode: "The Platinum Rule" | |
2007–09 | Flight of the Conchords | Mel | 21 episodes |
2008 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force | Tammy Tangerine (voice) | Episode: "Bible Fruit" |
The Whitest Kids U' Know | Homeless Woman | Episode: "2.9" | |
Snake 'n' Bacon | The Green Fairy | Episode: "Pilot" | |
2008–16 | The Daily Show | Herself (commentator) | 31 episodes |
2009 | Xavier: Renegade Angel | Various voices | Episode: "Going Normal" |
Comedy Showcase | Tourist | Episode: "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" | |
2010 | Modern Family | Whitney | Episode: "Fifteen Percent" |
Comedy Lab | Penelope | Episode: "Penelope Princess of Pets" | |
Fact Checkers Unit | Paula | Episode: "One Groundhog Day Dog" | |
Scared Shrekless | Sugar the Gingerbread Girl (voice) | Short | |
2010–15 | WordGirl | Victoria Best (voice) | 5 episodes |
2011 | The Penguins of Madagascar | Muffy, Buffy, and Fluffy (voices) | Episode: "Operation: Neighbor Swap" |
Soul Quest Overdrive | Tammy (voice) | 5 episodes | |
2011–2012 | American Dad! | Librarian and Girl (voices) | 2 episodes |
2011–14 | The Heart, She Holler | Hershe Heartshe | 6 episodes |
2011–2018 | The Simpsons | Taffy / Louise Belcher (voices) | 2 episodes[95] |
2011–present | Bob's Burgers | Louise Belcher (voice) | Lead role Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production |
2012–2013 | 30 Rock | Hazel Wassername | 11 episodes |
2012–14 | Adventure Time | Jake Jr. (voice) | 4 episodes |
2012–16 | Gravity Falls | Mabel Pines (voice) | Lead role; 39 episodes |
2013–2016 | Comedy Bang! Bang! | Herself / Gina Guppies | 2 episodes |
2013 | Archer | Tiffy (voice) | 2 episodes |
Wilfred | Anne | 4 episodes | |
NTSF:SD:SUV:: | Deborah | Episode: "Trading Faces" | |
Toy Story of Terror | Trixie (voice) | Short | |
2014 | Toy Story That Time Forgot | ||
The Hotwives of Orlando | Amanda Simmons | Series regular; 7 episodes | |
Glee | Mary Halloran | Episode: "The Untitled Rachel Berry Project" | |
2014–20 | BoJack Horseman | Sarah Lynn, various voices | 14 episodes Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance |
2015 | Axe Cop | God (voice) | Episode: "Axe Cop Saves God" |
The Hotwives of Las Vegas | Amanda Simmons | Episode: "Old Friends, New Enemies" | |
2015–18 | The Last Man on Earth | Carol Pilbasian | Main role; 65 episodes Also director: "Gender Friender" |
2016 | Wander Over Yonder | Mavis (voice) | Episode: "The Cartoon" |
Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio | Various voices | Episode: "For Sarandon" | |
Great Minds with Dan Harmon | Amelia Earhart | Episode: "Amelia Earhart" | |
Transformers: Rescue Bots | Chickadee (voice) | Episode: "Camp Cody" | |
2018 | Ask the StoryBots | Biologist | Episode: "How Many Types of Animals Are There?" |
2019 | Future Man | Screw | Episode: "Guess Who's Coming to Lunch" |
Corporate | Sheena | Episode: "The Tragedy" | |
Squinters | Tina | 6 episodes | |
Forky Asks a Question | Trixie (voice) | 2 episodes | |
2019, 2021–present | What We Do in the Shadows | The Guide | 19 episodes |
2020 | Amphibia | Bella the Bellhop (voice) | Episode: "The Plantars Check In" |
Death Hacks | Molly (voice) | 10 episodes | |
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? | Herself (voice) | Episode: "The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!" | |
Bless the Harts | Stacey (voice) | Episode: "Dead Mall" | |
Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun | Dishwasher (voice) | Episode: "Housemates" | |
2020–2022 | Dicktown | Kendra (voice) | 2 episodes |
2021 | Teenage Euthanasia | Norma the Crotch Beetle (voice) | Episode: "Adventures in Beetlesitting" |
2021−2022 | Big Mouth | Bernadette "Bernie" Sanders (voice) | Recurring role |
2021 | Bubble Guppies | Agnus (voice) | Episode: "Dragons n' Roses" |
2021–2022 | The Mysterious Benedict Society | Number Two | Main role |
2022 | Our Flag Means Death | Antoinette | 2 episodes |
TBA | The Green Beret's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse | Episode: "Big Ones" |
Games
Year | Title | Voice role | Ref. |
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2010 | Toy Story 3: The Video Game | Trixie | [96] |
2019 | Anthem | Sayrna | [97] |
Audio
Year | Title | Role | Author | Production company | Ref. |
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2021 | The Sandman: Act II | Delirium | Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs | Audible | [98] |
Music videos
Year | Song | Artist | Ref. |
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2011 | "Conversation 16" | The National | [63][64][65] |
2014 | "Tacky" (a parody of Pharrell Williams's "Happy") | "Weird Al" Yankovic | [70][71] |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | New York Comedy Festival | Andy Kaufman Award | Herself | Won | [8] |
2006 | HBO US Comedy Arts Festival | Best Alternative Comedian | Herself | Won | [7][8] |
Nightlife Awards | Outstanding Female Standup Comedian | Herself | Won | [7][99] | |
2007 | ECNY Awards | Best Female Standup Comedian | Herself | Won | [100] |
2008 | Edinburgh Festival Fringe | If.comedy award | Kristen Schaal And Kurt Braunohler: Double Down Hearts | Nominated | [18] |
Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Barry Award | Kristen Schaal As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before | Won | [11] | |
2009 | 1st Streamy Awards | Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series | Horrible People | Nominated | [101] |
2012 | 2nd Annual Behind the Voice Actor Awards | Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical | as "Mabel Pines" from Gravity Falls | Won | [102] |
2013 | 40th Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production | as "Mabel Pines" in "Tourist Trapped," Gravity Falls | Won | [103] |
3rd Annual Behind the Voice Actor Awards | Best Female Lead Vocal Performance in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical | as "Mabel Pines" from Gravity Falls | Nominated | [104] | |
2014 | American Comedy Awards | Comedy Special of the Year | Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore | Nominated | [105] |
2016 | 43rd Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production | as "Louise Belcher" in "Hawk & Chick," Bob's Burgers | Won | [106] |
2017 | 69th Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance | as Sarah Lynn in "That's Too Much, Man!," BoJack Horseman | Nominated | [107] |
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