
Ayo Edebiri
Acting
Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊ əˈdɛbəri/ Eye-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee; born Funmilayo Edebiri, October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, and television writer. Since 2022, she has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the episode "Napkins".
Edebiri has been a writer and voice actor on Big Mouth since 2020 and was a writer for the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows in 2022. In 2023, she voiced roles in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and starred in the Theater Camp and Bottoms comedies. She had another voice role in Inside Out 2 (2024).
Known For

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Black Mirror

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Inside Out 2

Dickinson

History of the World: Part II

Ella McCay

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

Bottoms

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

After the Hunt

Shithouse

Opus

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

How It Ends

Theater Camp

Omni Loop

The Sweet East
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