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 (date to be announced), with Rose Salazar, Mary-Louise Parker, and Maddison Bullock. Edebiri’s next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie was the supervillains epic, Thunderbolts (2024), directed by Jake Schreier, and co-starring Florence Pugh, Harrison Ford, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steven Yeun, Sebastian Stan, Olga Kurylenko, and David Harbour.
Personal Details
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.
Filmography
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- 2024 | Inside Out 2asEnvy
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 | The Sweet EastasMolly
The Sweet East
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina. She gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
- 2023 |
- 2023 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemasApril 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 CampasJanet Walch
Theater Camp
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.
- 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
Some 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.
