Jenny Slate

Overview

Jenny Sarah Slate is an American actress, comedian, and author. Born and raised in Milton, Massachusetts, Slate was educated at Milton Academy and studied literature at Columbia University, where she became involved in the improvise and comedy scene. She lent voice performances to the animated films The Lorax (2012), Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Despicable Me 3 (2017), and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019), and she ventured into dramatic roles with her supporting performance as Bonnie in Gifted (2017). She also appeared in the critically acclaimed science-fiction film, Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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Known for accidentally dropping the F-bomb on her debut performance on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2009.
She is of Ashkenazi Jewish and some Sephardi Jewish descent (from Russia, Poland, Austria, and Turkey). Her paternal grandmother was born in Havana, Cuba, to parents from Russia and Turkey, and was raised in Paris, France.
After graduating from Columbia with degrees in English and Comparative Literature, Jenny Slate ran a comedy night with Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri.
Jenny Slate got her start in voice work in a stop-motion short called "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On." She has since voiced many characters such as Bellwether in Zootopia (2016), Valerie Da Vinci in Despicable Me 3 (2017) and Missy in the series Big Mouth (2017).
Former sister-in-law of American comedian, podcaster and journalist Lee Camp.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.
There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.
I just want to be able to be creative.
I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.