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Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Amy was first involved with sketch comedy when she joined the group My Mother's Flea Bag when she was attending Boston College. In 1993, she went to Chicago where she studied at Second City and Improv Olympics. There, she met Del Close, who later became the voice of the UCB opening scene. In 1996, she joined the Upright Citizen's Brigade with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh. Later on, the group moved to New York and became a Comedy Central show. The show went on only for three seasons. However, the group stayed together at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. Today, the theater is one of the leading centers for improv and sketch shows.

After the Upright Citizens Brigade (1998) sketch show came and went, Amy joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2001. By the end of Christmas break of that year, she became a regularly featured performer. She has brought a slew of great performances on every show, such as impersonations of celebrities such as Kelly Ripa or Sharon Osbourne. When Jimmy Fallon left at the end of the 2003-04 season, Amy joined Tina Fey as a co-anchor for Weekend Update. Her Hollywood star is also growing bright, as she has done several feature films, including Blades of Glory (2007) with her then-real-life husband and Arrested Development (2003) star Will Arnett; and the Farrelly brothers-directed remake of The Heartbreak Kid (1993), in which she stars alongside another Arrested Development (2003) star, Jason Bateman.

Among her 2010s film starring roles are Sisters (2015), with Tina Fey, and The House (2017), with Will Ferrell. Having played one of her first roles in the indie Wet Hot American Summer (2001), she reprised her role in the television mini-series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017).

Amy was married to Canadian actor and comedian Will Arnett from 2003 to 2016. The couple have two children.

(2012) Appeared in an infomercial, hosted by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000993/?ref_=nmwrk">Carol Burnett</a>, for TimeLife&#39;s &quot;The Best of the Carol Burnett Show&quot; DVD collection.

(October 14, 2013) Wrote autobiographical article in The New Yorker entitled &quot;Work for Hire: Take Your Licks&quot; about her teenager job as an ice-cream scooper.

(April 2014) TV commercial &quot;Tortilla? Beans? Dress?&quot; for Old Navy.

(2013 - 2014) Large series of TV commercials for Old Navy.

(November 2014) TV commercial, &quot;Pretentious Restaurant Hostess,&quot; wearing heavy, very colorful makeup (pink and blue), and using a disguised voice, demanding that a customer give her the coat off her back in exchange for getting a table at the restaurant, before finding out that the coats are on sale at Old Navy for 50% Off, and using her tablet computer&#39;s GPS to #runtooldnavy.

(Summer 2014) TV commercial, &quot;Judging Fashion,&quot; in the character of a court judge compelling a witness to turn around in court to be judged on her pants, before finding out that the pants are on sale at Old Navy for 50% Off, and closing the courtroom to #runtooldnavy.

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