Maya Rudolph Biography

Maya Rudolph is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She became famous in the mid-1990s as a member of the alternative rock band The Rentals, before joining The Groundlings improv troupe in the decade. She started her career as a member of the alternative rock band The Rentals later joined Saturday Night Live.

Maya Rudolph Age|Birthday

Maya Rudolph was born on July 27, 1972, in Gainesville, Florida USA. She is 47 years old as of 2019. She celebrates her birthday on July 27 every year.

Maya Rudolph Height

Maya stands at a height of 5feet 7inches (1.7 meters tall)

Maya Rudolph Education

Maya Rudolph graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California in 1990, where she became friends with her fellow students Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black and she, therefore, proceeded with her education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in photography from Porter College in 1995.

Maya Rudolph Family|Parents

She was born in Gainesville, Florida, to singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and composer Richard Rudolph.  Her mother Minnie Riperton was a singer and songwriter by profession while her father Richard Rudolph was a music composer. Her mother died in 1979 at the age of 31 due to breast cancer. She has a brother by the name Marc Rudolph.

Her paternal grandfather Sidney Rudolph, was a philanthropist who once owned all of the Wendy’s and Rudy’s restaurants in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Her great-grandfather was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and he changed his surname from “Rudashevsky” to “Rudolph”, and he was also the founding member of Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Maya Rudolph Marriage|Husband

Maya is married to director Paul Thomas Anderson, whom she met on Saturday Night Live and they were blessed with four children together. Rudolph’s parents moved to Los Angeles, California, when she and her brother Marc were very young, and they grew up primarily in the Westwood neighborhood.

Maya Rudolph Children

Maya and her husband Paul have four lovely children. Three daughters, Pearl, Lucille, and Minnie and one son, Jack.

Maya Rudolph Net Worth

Maya Rudolph is an American actress, comedian, and singer who has an estimated net worth of $10 million dollars.

Maya Rudolph Quick facts

Weight: 68kg (149 Pounds)
Shoe Size: 8(US)
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Brown
Bra Size: 36C
Waist Size: 28 inch
Hip Size: 39 inch
Dress Size: 10 (US)

Maya Rudolph Nationality

She is an American by birth with an African-American ancestry from her mother and also an Ashkenazi Jewish from her father’s family.

Maya Rudolph SNL|Saturday Night Live Show

Her acting career kicked off when she became a cast member of the Saturday Night Live Show in May 2000. She was a featured player for the final three episodes of the 1999-2000 season. Her musical talents were frequently employed on the show. Her first performance was when she sang Beyonce’ Knowles in the Prince Show sketches.

Rudolph, and Fred Armisen, created a couple from an unspecified Scandinavian country, who have unplaceable accents and bewilderingly foreign manners. She was also able to play male characters such as Scott Joplin, Justin Guarini, and Mario Vazquez. Maya’s final episode as a cast member was on November 3, 2007, with host Brian Williams and musical guest Feist.

On October 25, 2008, she returned in a featured guest appearance as Michelle Obama and sang a duet with Kenan Thompson. She later appeared in the Christmas episode where she reprised her role in the sketch Bronx Beat. Maya later appeared on other television shows including the City of Angels and Chicago Hope among others.

This was in addition to her work at the Saturday Night Live Show. Her first prominent film role came in 2006 with A Prairie Home Companion. She co-starred with Luke Wilson in the 2005 Mike Judge sci-fi Comedy Idiocracy. Before she joined SNL, she was a backing singer and a brief keyboardist in Rentals the band.

She returned to Saturday Night Live for season 36 premiere, hosted by Amy Poehler, performing the “Bronx Beat” sketch and that of the same season in episode 700, hosted by Tina Fey. On February 18, 2012, she returned to Saturday Night Live as a host for the first time and reprised her roles in sketches such as “Bronx Beat”.

She once again returned to SNL on December 19, 2015, for the Christmas episode hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, reprising her role in the “Bronx Beat” sketch. She again appeared on the 41st-season finale (hosted by Fred Armisen) as Dilma Rousseff on Weekend Update. In the 45th-season premiere, she appeared in a town hall sketch as Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA).

Maya Rudolph Comedian

Rudolph became a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2000 and she subsequently appeared in the supporting roles in films such as 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006) and Idiocracy (2006). After she left the Saturday Night Live in 2007, she appeared in Grown Ups (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Inherent Vice (2014), Sisters (2015), CHiPs (2017), and Wine Country (2019).

Rudolph also lent her voice to the animated films Shrek the Third (2007) and Big Hero 6 (2014). In addition to her film appearances, she starred as Ava Alexander on the NBC sitcom Up All Night from 2011 to 2012 and she then co-hosted her own variety series, Maya & Marty, together with Martin Short in 2016. In 2018, Maya appeared on the NBC fantasy comedy series The Good Place, where she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Maya Rudolph Forever

Forever is an American comedy-drama web television series that premiered on September 14, 2018. Forever stars both Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph as executive producers with Yang Habbard and others. She also plays the role of June Hoffman who is an employee of the Timeshare company and also the Wife of Oscar. She then realizes how her marriage had reached a level of failure and decides to end it and seek something else.

Maya Rudolph Music

Before she joined Saturday Night Live, she was a backing singer from 1995–1999 and shortly a keyboardist in the band called The Rentals, with whom she toured for a short time. She has also appeared in the music videos of the songs “Waiting” and “Please Let That Be You”. She has sung backing vocals for “Barcelona” and “My Head Is in the Sun”, both from the album Seven More Minutes.

She recorded a track with The Rentals frontman Matt Sharp in 2004, including a cover of Tegan and Sara’s “Not Tonight”. She also performed “Together In Pooping” and “Little Roundworm” with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel) on his album Come Poop With Me. She then joined the Prince cover band called Princess with her friend Gretchen Lieberum.

Maya Rudolph Big Mouth

This is an American adult animated sitcom that features teens based on Kroll and Goldberg’s upbringing in New York City. In this series, Maya plays various types of voice-overs.

Maya Rudolph Idiocracy

The film centers on the private life of Joe Bowers after he took part in a secret military experiment to put him in hibernation for a year with a woman named Rita. The duo is forgotten when the base they were stored in was closed down and left in stasis until 2505. When they finally wake up they find out that the average intelligence of humans has decreased so much that even Joe was mad with the smartest man in the world.

Maya Rudolph Television and film

In addition to her work in Saturday Night Live, she appeared in some other television shows, including the CBS medical drama series City of Angels and Chicago Hope. Maya had small parts in Chuck & Buck, Gattaca, As Good as It Gets, Duplex and Duets; she has also been a music supervisor for Duets. Her first film role came in 2006 with A Prairie Home Companion.

Rudolph had earlier, co-starred with Luke Wilson in the 2005 Mike Judge sci-fi comedy Idiocracy, although the film was shelved until September 2006 and was given a limited release. She has also guest-starred as Rapunzel in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third. She also guest-starred as Julia in The Simpsons episode “The Homer of Seville”.

She also guest-starred as character Athena Scooberman in NBC’s Kath & Kim and she has starred in the film Away We Go with The Office star John Krasinski. She appeared in Grown Ups in 2010, starring Adam Sandler, where she played the wife of Chris Rock’s character. In 2011, Maya appeared in Bridesmaids with her colleague in Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig, and in 2013 she played a supporting role in The Way, Way Back as the girlfriend of Sam Rockwell’s character.

She also co-starred in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, with her colleague Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. Her self-titled variety show television pilot aired on May 19, 2014, but the show did not go beyond that. It was later announced that she would star in an NBC variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short, which debuted on May 31, 2016.

The Forever series was premiered on September 14, 2018, on Amazon Video. In 2018, she began doing Ruby Tuesday and Seventh Generation commercials. In 2019 she appeared as a mother in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.

Maya Rudolph Characters

Rudolph’s characters on the show include “Attorney Glenda Goodwin” and “Megan” from the “Wake Up, Wakefield!” sketches. She did a number of celebrity impressions on Saturday Night Live during her tenure, in collaboration with

• Amanda Byram
• Ananda Lewis
• Barbra Streisand
• Bern Nadette Stanis (as Thelma Evans on Good Times)
• Beyoncé
• Charo
• Christina Aguilera
• Condoleezza Rice
• Ivanka Trump
• Ja’net Dubois (as Willona Woods on Good Times)
• Jennifer Lopez
• Joyce “Fenderella” Irby
• Justin Guarini
• Kara Saun
• Kamala Harris
• La Toya Jackson
• Lisa Kudrow
• Lisa Ling
• Liza Minnelli
• Lucy Liu
• Lynda Lopez
• Macy Gray
• Michelle Obama

Maya Rudolph Songs

• Why Does Nobody Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix 2019
• I Love My Body Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• Who Needs a Boy? Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• Everybody’s Going Through Changes
  Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• Final Showdown Shrek the Third: The Motion Picture Soundtrack · 2007
• A Christmas Story A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• It All Comes Down to Christmas A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• Tell Him / Wild Thing Strange Magic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015
• Sexy Red Bra
  Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• The Genius on Cleveland Street A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• You’ve Got the Power Now
  Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• Ralphie’s Nightmare A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• The Spectrum of Sexuality
  Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• I Am The Hormone Monstress
  Super Songs Of Big Mouth Vol. 1 (Music from the Netflix Original Series) · 2019
• What a Mother Does A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• Before the Old Man Comes Home A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• Christmas
• Just Like That A Christmas Story Live! · 2017
• Hit me with your best shot
• Secret Santa

Maya Rudolph Awards

• 2004 Satellite Awards
• 2007 NAACP Image Awards
• 2011 Satellite Awards
• 2012 Primetime Emmy Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Satellite Awards, and MTV Movie Awards
• 2014 Independent Spirit Awards
• 2016 Writers Guild of America Award
• 2018, 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards

Maya Rudolph Movies

• Wine Country 2019
• Grown Ups 2 2013
• Big Hero 6 2014
• The Emoji Movie 2017
• The Happytime Murders 2018
• Sisters 2015
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 2019
• Life of the Party 2018
• Angry Birds Movie 2016
• The Nut Job 2014
• The Nut Job 2 2017
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 2019
• The Way, Way Back 2013
• Booksmark 2019
• A Christmas Story: Live 2017
• Hubie Halloween 2020
• The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience 2019
• The Willoughbys 2020
• We Don’t Belong Here 2017

Maya Rudolph TV Shows

• Saturday Night Live 1975
• Forever (2018 TV series)
• Big Mouth 2017
• The Good Place 2016-2020
• Bless the Harts 2019
• Up All Night (TV series) 2011-2012
• Maya and Marty 2016
• A Christmas Story: Live 2017
• The Grinder 2015-2016
• The Spoils Before Dying 2015
• The Awesomes 2013-2015
• City of Angels (2000 TV series)
• Kath and Kim 2008-2009
• Big Hero 6: The Series 2017
• Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday 2008-2017
• MacGruber 2007-2010
• Big Hero 6 – TV-serien: kortfilmer
• Bollywood Hero 2009

Frequently Asked Questions About Maya Rudolph

Who is Maya Rudolph?

She is an American actress, comedian, and singer.

How old is Maya Rudolph?

She is 47 years old as of 2019.

How tall is Maya Rudolph?

She stands at a height of 5feet 7inches (1.7 meters tall)

Is Maya Rudolph married?

Yes, she is married and she is married to director Paul Thomas Anderson.

How much is Maya Rudolph worth?

She is an American actress, comedian, and singer who has an estimated net worth of $10 million dollars.

How much does Maya Rudolph make?

According to our sources, there is no information about her salary but we will get to update you soon as it is available.

Where does Maya Rudolph live?

Because of security reasons, she has not shared his precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of his/her house.

Is Maya Rudolph dead or alive?

She is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of her being sick or having any health-related issues.

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