(born June 26, 1984)is an American actress and comedienne who currently co-stars as April Ludgate on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.
Early life
Plaza was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Bernadette, an attorney, and David Plaza, a financial adviser. She has a younger sister, Natalie, on whom she bases her "bratty teenage" characters.[citation needed] Plaza was named after the song "Aubrey" by Bread. Her father is Puerto Rican and her mother is of Irish and English descent. Plaza has stated: "I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico."
She is a graduate of Ursuline Academy in 2002 and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006.
Career
Plaza has said that she has had many internships and that she "was an intern for Samba Post-Its." One of her jobs was to "literally wallpaper a bathroom with Post-Its."
She has been performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2004. She also recently began performing stand-up and has appeared at the Laugh Factory and The Improv. In 2008, she was seen in the Improv Everywhere prank "Mobile Desktop", in which she and two other people brought desktop PCs, including a CRT screen, tower computer, keyboard and mouse into a Starbucks and used them just as people use laptops there.
Plaza starred in the online series The Jeannie Tate Show, and stars as Robin Gibney in ESPN's Mayne Street. She also appeared in the first episode of "Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz" on Funny or Die.[6]
She played Seth Rogen's love interest, Daisy, in 2009's Funny People directed by Judd Apatow. She also has roles in the comedy features Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (in which she plays Julie Powers) and Derrick Comedy's Mystery Team which debuted at 2009 Sundance. She also appeared in a College Humor short alongside Jason Bateman and Will Arnett which is sponsored by Orbit gum.
On February 4, 2010, as a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, she described how she would make her own fun in Wilmington, Delaware:
I found a large box in the locker room in middle school, and my principal, Ms. [Kay] Gaglione, is a very tiny woman and she used to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to go home-she would walk home from school-and I thought it would be funny if I followed her home in a box. So I would . . . be in the box and I would walk down this . . . main street after her and every time she would turn around, I would drop down inside of it.
On March 12, 2010, Plaza performed at A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweetathon for Haiti, produced by Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Ben Stiller, and Mike Rosenstein, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.
Filmography
Killswitch (2006) – Girl with massive head wound
In Love (2006) – Julie
30 Rock (2006, TV) – NBC page (1 episode, "Tracy Does Conan")
The Jeannie Tate Show (2007, online) – Tina Tate
Mayne Street (2008, TV) – Robin Gibney
Mystery Team – Kelly
Funny People (2009) – Daisy Danby
Pete Carroll's Trip to Seattle Delayed (2010)
Parks and Recreation (2009–present) – April Ludgate
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) – Julie Powers
(source:wikipedia)
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