Ayo Edebiri
Birthdate: Oct 3, 1995
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Ayo Edebiri is a rising actor, comedy writer, and stand-up comedian, who has appeared in and worked in the writer's room on several TV and streaming shows, ranging from Ayo and Rachel Are Single, The Rundown with Robin Thede, Sunnyside, Big Mouth, Dickinson, Netflix’s Mulligan, We Lost Our Human, and the acclaimed FX series, The Bear (2022-2023), for which Edebiri received multiple awards nominations and an Independent Spirit Award win for best supporting performance in a new scripted series.
After Edibiri’s first big-screen role (uncredited) in director/writer/producer Cooper Raiff’s Shithouse (2020), Edebiri had a supporting role in Cicada (2020), the Outfest-premiering indie drama co-directed by Matthew Fifer (who also wrote, starred and co-edited) and Kieran Mulcare, and released by Strand Releasing. Ayo Edibiri joined the sprawling cast of Daryl Wein’s and Zoe Lister-Jones’ apocalyptic comedy-drama, How It Ends (2021), with Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Fred Armisen, Bradley Whitford, Olivia Wilde, Helen Hunt, Colin Hanks, and Charlie Day, and which premiered at the Sundance film festival and released by United Artists Releasing.
Ayo Edebiri, between her film and TV work, had a very busy 2023, including a supporting role in the Sundance festival hit, Theater Camp (2023), co-directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman (who also co-wrote and co-performed with Noah Galvin and Ben Platt), and released by Searchlight Pictures. Edebiri then co-starred in the teen sex comedy, Bottoms (2023), directed and co-written (with cast member Rachel Sennott) by Emma Seligman and co-produced by Elizabeth Banks, with Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Dagmara Dominczyk and NFL star Marshawn Lynch, and was released by Orion Pictures/MGM after a South by Southwest festival premiere.
Edebiri co-starred in director-cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ indie drama, The Sweet East (2023), written by Nick Pinkerton and with Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, and Jeremy O. Harris, which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and released by Utopia. Ayo Edibiri next appeared in two major studio-backed voice performances in, first, Marvel Comics/Sony Pictures Animation’s acclaimed smash hit, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023); and then in a co-starring role in the Nickelodeon/Paramount animated reboot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), directed by Jeff Rowe and co-starring Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, Rose Byrne, and Jackie Chan.
Edebiri co-starred in writer-director Bernardo Britto’s time-travel drama, Omni Loop (2024), with Rose Salazar, Mary-Louise Parker, and Maddison Bullock. Edebiri played the character of Envy in the voice ensemble of Disney/Pixar Animation Studios’ highly anticipated sequel, Inside Out 2 (2024), with original cast members Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan and new cast mates Maya Hawke, Tony Hale and Adele Exarchopoulos, under co-writer Kelsey Mann’s direction, and grossing a robust $1.7 billion (against $200 million costs).
Edebiri starred in and was an executive producer of director/writer/co-producer Mark Anthony Green’s feature debut, Opus (2025), with John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Young Mazino, and Tatanka Means, released wide by A24 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Ayo Edebiri co-starred with Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield in director/producer Luca Guadagnino’s drama, After the Hunt (2025), with Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, made with lead producers MGM and Imagine Entertainment, and released by Amazon MGM Studios. Edebiri was then cast by director/writer/producer James L. Brooks opposite Emma Mackey, Woody Harrelson, Kumail Nanjiani, Jack Lowden, Rebecca Hall, Troy Garity, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Albert Brooks in the comedy-drama, Ella McCay (2025), produced by Brooks’s Gracie Films and released by 20th Century Studios.
Personal life
Ayo Edebiri was born and raised in Boston by her mother, an immigrant from Barbados, and her father, an immigrant from Nigeria. Edebiri was raised in the Pentecostal faith. Edebiri attended Boston Latin School, where she got involved in the school’s drama group. Upon graduating, Edebiri studied at New York University, where her first major was education; she changed her major to dramatic writing. While still at NYU, Edebiri secured an internship at Upright Citizens Brigade to train in comedy and comedy writing.
Known For
Awards
Nominee, Best Supporting Actress—Comedy Series, Critics’ Choice Awards (2023); Nominee, Best Supporting Actress—Comedy Series, Emmy Awards (2023); Nominee, Best Performance in New Series, Gotham Independent Film Awards (2022); Winner, Best Supporting Performance—New Scripted Series, Independent Spirit Awards (2023); Nominee, Best Writing—Comedy Series, NAACP Image Awards (2023); Nominee, Best Ensemble—Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2023); Nominee, Best Episodic Comedy, Writers Guild of America Awards (2023).
Critics Choice Award
Critics Choice Awards
Independent Spirit Award
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Ayo Edebiri Movies
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Upcoming (2)
- 2025 |
After the Hunt
asMaggie Price
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
- 2025 |
Ella McCay
The film will follow an idealistic young politician who juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state's longtime incumbent governor.
Previous (9)
- 2025 |
- 2024 |
- 2024 |
Inside Out 2
A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
- 2023 |
- 2023 |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
asApril O'Neil
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Turtle brothers work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants.
- 2023 |
Theater Camp
asJanet Walch
The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.
- 2022 | Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between
- 2021 | As of Yet
- 2021 |
How It Ends
asStand Up
How It Ends
In this feel-good apocalyptic comedy, Liza (Zoe Lister-Jones) embarks on a hilarious journey through LA in hopes of making it to her last party before it all ends, running into an eclectic cast of characters along the way.
Facts About Ayo Edebiri
Podcaster: Ayo Edebiri co-hosted a podcast, Iconography, with Olivia Craighead, which aired in 2019 and 2020.
Socialist Politics: Edebiri has canvassed for Democratic Socialists of America.
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