Creator / Ayo Edebiri

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.

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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
  • Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Bottoms: Josie
• Inside Out 2: Envy

Tropes in her career:

• Running Gag:invoked 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.

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