Cecily Strong

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Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress and comedian who has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2012. Other roles include voice work on The Awesomes (2013–2015), the film Ghostbusters (2016), and a starring role in Schmigadoon! (2021). For her work on Saturday Night Live, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 72nd and 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 2021 she released her Memoir, "This Will All Be Over Soon".

Filmography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Strong#Filmography

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Cecily Strong was born in Springfield, Illinois and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. Her father, Bill Strong, worked as an Associated Press bureau chief. She attended Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) before eventually transferring to the Chicago Academy for the Arts where she graduated in 2002. After high school she attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) where she graduated in 2006 with a BFA in Theatre. After graduating from CalArts, she returned to Chicago where she studied at the Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago.

Strong performed regularly at The Second City and iO Chicago. She also appeared at the Chicago Sketch Fest, Chicago Just for Laughs, New York Sketchfest, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In Chicago, Strong has also performed at the Goodman Theater, Bailiwick Theater, Mercury Theater, and with the all-female improv troupe Virgin Daiquiri.

On September 15, 2012, Strong made her debut as a featured player on Saturday Night Live. On September 15, 2013, Lorne Michaels announced that Strong would be co-anchoring Weekend Update with Seth Meyers beginning with the season 39 premiere.

Strong's recurring characters include a ditzy, unnamed pseudo-activist known as The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party, Dana (one half of a pair of retail who always insult their coworkers out of fear of being fired), Kyra from "The Girlfriends Talk Show", and an unnamed blond former porn star-turned-model/commercial actress who hawks elegant items. Her celebrity impressions include Anjelica Huston, Fran Drescher, Jill Kelley, Khloe Kardashian, Lydia Callis, Lana Del Rey, Paula Broadwell, Megyn Kelly, Alanis Morissette, and Rachel Maddow.