Ayo Edebiri
Acting • Born 1995-10-03
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 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).
Filmography
59 credits
Don't Look at That
Movie • 2024
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Movie • 2023
April O'Neil (voice)
Shithouse
Movie • 2020
Emily (uncredited)
The Sweet East
Movie • 2023
Molly
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Movie • 2023
Glory (voice)
Omni Loop
Movie • 2024
Paula
Bottoms
Movie • 2023
Josie
We Lost Our Human
Movie • 2023
Ham / Future Ham / Hamling (voice)
Theater Camp
Movie • 2023
Janet Walch
Cicada
Movie • 2021
Nikki
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Movie • 2022
Stella
Opus
Movie • 2025
Ariel Ecton
Ella McCay
Movie • 2025
Susan
"I Fell in Love with the World"
Movie • 2022
Woman 2
My Ride with Uber and Lyft
Movie • 2024
Inside Out 2
Movie • 2024
Envy (voice)
Tree's Blood
Movie • 2023
Elviria (voice)
After the Hunt
Movie • 2025
Maggie Resnick
Pervert Everything
Movie • 2018
How It Ends
Movie • 2021
Stand Up
As of Yet
Movie • 2021
Khadijah
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Movie • 2025
Self
Untitled Barney the Dinosaur Film
Movie
It Was Sometimes Like This
Movie • 2017
Ayo
Clarissa
Movie
Young Sally
Kiff
TV • 2023
Professor Totsy (voice)
Abbott Elementary
TV • 2021
Ayesha
PAUSE with Sam Jay
TV • 2021
Party Guest
The Premise
TV • 2021
Eve Stone
Mulligan
TV • 2023
General Scarpaccio / Jayson Moody (voice)
Clone High
TV • 2023
Harriet Tubman (voice)
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
TV • 2019
VR Shopping Spree Host
The Bear
TV • 2022
Sydney Adamu
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Sandy
Ayo and Rachel are Single
TV • 2020
Ayo
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TV • 2024
April O'Neil (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
History of the World: Part II
TV • 2023
Runaway Slave
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Missy Foreman-Greenwald / Mosaic Missy (voice)
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
Missy Foreman-Greenwald (voice)
Dickinson
TV • 2019
Hattie
Everybody Still Hates Chris
TV • 2024
Roxanne (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
TV • 2025
Self - Actress and Comedian
Prodigies
TV
Didi
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Sherri
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
Fan Fiction Showdown
TV • 2020
I Love LA
TV • 2025
Mimi Rush
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
TV • 2025
Self
BIGTOP BURGER
TV • 2020
Frances (Voice)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter