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Jenny Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. Following early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate gained recognition for her live variety shows in New York City and for co-creating, writing, and producing the children's short film and book series Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2010–present). She became more widely known as a cast member on the 35th season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live between 2009 and 2010, followed by subsequent roles in the comedic series Bob's Burgers (2012–present), Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), House of Lies (2013–2015), and Kroll Show (2013–2015). Slate's breakout role came with her leading performance in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Obvious Child (2014), for which she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Independent Film Award. She lent voice performances to the animated films The Lorax (2012), Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019), The Lego Batman Movie, and Despicable Me 3 (both 2017), 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, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenny Slate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  
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Jenny Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. Following early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate gained recognition for her live variety shows in New York City and for co-creating, writing, and producing the children's short film and book series Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2010–present). She became more widely known as a cast member on the 35th season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live between 2009 and 2010, followed by subsequent roles in the comedic series Bob's Burgers (2012–present), Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), House of Lies (2013–2015), and Kroll Show (2013–2015). Slate's breakout role came with her leading performance in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Obvious Child (2014), for which she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Independent Film Award. She lent voice performances to the animated films The Lorax (2012), Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019), The Lego Batman Movie, and Despicable Me 3 (both 2017), 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, winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jenny Slate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.  
Known For
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Saturday Night Live
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Simpsons
Parks and Recreation
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Adventure Time
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Bob's Burgers
Starved
Hello Ladies
Ugly Americans
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Drunk History
Bored to Death
Brothers
House of Lies
This Means War
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Minions & More Volume 2
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Despicable Me 3
The Electric State
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hotel Artemis
The Lego Batman Movie
Venom
Married
The Lorax
Digging for Fire
Brain on Fire
Lady Dynamite
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience
Comrade Detective
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
On the Rocks
Zootopia
Big Mouth
The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Secret Life of Pets
Gifted
It Ends with Us
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Kroll Show
Dying for Sex
I Want You Back
The Great North
The Polka King
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Sunlit Night
Production Credits
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Sunlit Night
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