Ayo Edebiri

ActorProductionWriterDirectorProducer Oct 3 (age 30) Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1996–2025 (29 year career)

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Biography

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 wa…

Known For

Film

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Glory (voice)

Film

Inside Out 2

Envy (voice)

Film

The Bear

Sydney Adamu

Film

Dickinson

Staff Writer

Film

What We Do in the Shadows

Consulting Producer

Film

Big Mouth

Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice)

Film

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

April O'Neil (voice)

Film

Craig of the Creek

Story

Filmography

Acting (60)

Movies (26)

Ella McCay

as Susan

After the Hunt

as Maggie Resnick

Opus

as Ariel Ecton

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

as Self

Inside Out 2

as Envy (voice)

"Extraordinary" Pursuits

2024

as The Hat Lady

Don't Look at That

2024

My Ride with Uber and Lyft

2024

Omni Loop

2024

as Paula

5.8

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

as Glory (voice)

8.3

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

2023

as April O'Neil (voice)

Bottoms

as Josie

We Lost Our Human

as Ham / Future Ham / Hamling (voice)

The Sweet East

as Molly

Theater Camp

as Janet Walch

Tree's Blood

as Elviria (voice)

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

2022

as Stella

6.2

"I Fell in Love with the World"

as Woman 2

As of Yet

as Khadijah

Cicada

as Nikki

How It Ends

as Stand Up

Shithouse

as Emily (uncredited)

6.9

Pervert Everything

2018

It Was Sometimes Like This

2017

as Ayo

Untitled Barney the Dinosaur Film

Clarissa

as Young Sally

Television (34)

I Love LA

2025

as Mimi Rush

6.9

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

2025

as Self - Actress and Comedian

5.0

SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

2025

as Self

7.8

Everybody Still Hates Chris

2024

as Roxanne (voice)

7.7

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

2024

as April O'Neil (voice)

7.8

Kiff

2023

as Professor Totsy (voice)

8.5

History of the World: Part II

2023

as Runaway Slave

5.6

Mulligan

2023

as General Scarpaccio / Jayson Moody (voice)

5.5

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee

2023

as Self

8.5

Clone High

2023

as Harriet Tubman (voice)

The Bear

as Sydney Adamu

Sherri

as Self - Guest

Abbott Elementary

as Ayesha

The Premise

as Eve Stone

PAUSE with Sam Jay

as Party Guest

Fan Fiction Showdown

Ayo and Rachel are Single

as Ayo

BIGTOP BURGER

as Frances (Voice)

BIGTOP BURGER

as Frances (Voice)

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

Dickinson

as Hattie

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

2019

as VR Shopping Spree Host

7.0

Big Mouth

2017

as Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice)

7.6

Big Mouth

2017

as Missy Foreman-Greenwald / Mosaic Missy (voice)

7.6

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self - Guest

6.2

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Black Mirror

as Sandy

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Prodigies

as Didi

Crew (16)

Movies (2)

It Was Sometimes Like This

2017

Writer

Untitled Barney the Dinosaur Film

Writer

Television (14)

Mulligan

Co-Producer

Mulligan

Writer

The Bear

Co-Executive Producer

The Bear

Director

The Bear

Writer

Ayo and Rachel are Single

2020

Writer

8.7

What We Do in the Shadows

2019

Consulting Producer

8.0

What We Do in the Shadows

Writer

Dickinson

Staff Writer

Dickinson

Writer

Sunnyside

Story Editor

Sunnyside

Writer

Craig of the Creek

Story

Prodigies

Executive Producer