Ayo Edebiri (born October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known as Missy on Big Mouth, a role she took over from Jenny Slate; she is also a writer and consulting producer for the show. Further famous roles of hers include Sydney on The Bear (2022) and Ayesha on Abbott Elementary.
She mentioned she's queer in a September 2023 interview.
Partial Filmography:
- Big Mouth: Missy (2020 onwards, also writer)
- BIGTOP BURGER: Frances
- Dickinson: Hattie (also writer)
- The Bear (2022): Sydney Adamu
- Abbott Elementary: Ayesha
- History of the World Part II: Japheth's Wife
- Mulligan: General Scarpaccio and Jayson Moody
- We Lost Our Human: Ham
- Clone High: Harriet Tubman
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Glory (Bandmate of Gwen Stacy on Earth-65)
- Theater Camp: Janet Walch
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: April O'Neil
- Bottoms: Josie
- Inside Out 2: Envy
Tropes in her career:
- Running Gag: She's given a bunch of random shoutouts to Ireland and made jokes about starring as a donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin. This has resulted in large numbers of Irish people reciprocating her comedic fixation and adopting her as an honorary Irishwoman.