Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza

Actor
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Life Story

Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian known for her deadpan style. She portrayed April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation (2009), and after appearing in supporting roles in several films, had her first leading role in the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (2012).

Plaza began her career as an intern. After performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, she appeared in the web series The Jeannie Tate Show (2007). She later appeared in films such as Funny People (2009), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and Life After Beth (2014).

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Trivia

Plaza had never done stand-up comedy before appearing in and performing stand-up comedy in the movie Funny People (2009).
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.
Plaza was named after the song, "Aubrey", by the pop/rock group Bread, which was written and composed by David Gates.
Is in a long-term relationship with Jeff Baena.
One of several internships she had was working in the art department at Saturday Night Live (1975).
Her father is Puerto Rican. Her mother has German, English, Irish, and Swiss-German ancestry.
She makes an appearance as an NBC Page in the 30 Rock (2006) episode, 30 Rock: Tracy Does Conan (2006). Before she was an actress, she actually interned with the NBC Page program.
Friends with Chris Pratt.
Counts The MatchMaker (1997) as one of her all-time favorite films.
Graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Personal Quotes 

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
I am a Netflix/DVR junkie. I don't like to watch TV without a plan.
I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.
I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.
I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.
I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.
I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

 
Filmography

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