
Ayo Edebiri (/ˈaɪoʊ əˈdɛbəri/ Eye-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee; born Funmilayo Edebiri, October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, and television writer. Since 2022, she has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the episode "Napkins". Edebiri has been a writer and voice actor on Big Mouth since 2020 and was a writer for the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows in 2022. In 2023, she voiced roles in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and starred in the Theater Camp and Bottoms comedies. She had another voice role in Inside Out 2 (2024).

The Daily Show
TV • 1996

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975

Saturday Night Live
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Kiff
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Golden Globe Awards
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Golden Globe Awards
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Black Mirror
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Sherri
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Big Mouth
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Big Mouth
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Abbott Elementary
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The Bear
TV • 2022