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Date of Birth

4 May 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Birth Name

Ana Kristina Gasteyer

Height

5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

Ana Gasteyer is best known for her incomparable work on Saturday Night Live. During her six year stint, she created some of the most famous SNL characters including middle school music teacher Bobbie Moughan-Culp, NPR radio host Margaret Jo, Lilith Fair poetess Cinder Calhoun, as well as spot-on impressions of Martha Stewart, Celine Dion and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Following her run in Eve Ensler's acclaimed Off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues, and her triumphant Broadway debut as Columbia in The Rocky Horror Show, she continued her work on the New York stage starring in Manhattan Theatre Club's hit production of Kimberly Akimbo by celebrated playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. On stage most recently, Ana starred as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

Other theatrical credits include the national tour of The Real Live Brady Bunch, as well as productions of The Odyssey and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (both directed by Mary Zimmerman).

In the fall of 2002, she co-starred in the one-night-only star-studded Funny Girl Actors Fund benefit concert, joining Whoopi Goldberg, Ricki Lake, Jane Krakowski and others as one of the many celebrities tag-teaming the role of Fanny Brice.

Prior to joining SNL, Gasteyer honed her comedy skills at The Groundlings, the famed Los Angeles improv-sketch comedy group.

On film, Ana has been seen in What Women Want with Mel Gibson, Woman on Top, Dick, and What's The Worst That Could Happen? opposite John Leguizamo and Martin Lawrence.

Other television credits include Frasier, Just Shoot Me, 3rd Rock from the Sun, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Party of Five, Seinfeld (the Soup Nazi episode), Live with Regis, as guest host and The Rosie O'Donnell Show, as guest host.

Ana will next be seen starring in Reefer Madness for Showtime Films.

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Spouse

Charlie McKittrick

(9 November 1996 - present) 1 child

Trivia

Graduated from Northwestern University. Was a member of The Groundlings comedy troup.

Graduate of Sidwell Friends High School (alma mater of Chelsea Clinton).

Portrayed Hillary Rodham Clinton on "Saturday Night Live" (1975).

Used to be friends with President Carter's daughter, Amy, while the Carter family lived in Washington, D.C. She once even played the violin for Anwar Sadat, former president of Egypt.

Her first name is pronounced "On-uh".

She is the first cast member of "Saturday Night Live" to be pregnant while on the show.

Ana delivered a 9 pound, 1 ounce baby girl named Frances McKittrick in June 2002.

August 2002: Announced that she would not be returning for a new season of Saturday Night Live. She had been on the show for 6 years.

In Mean Girls, she played a tenured professor at her real-life alma mater, Northwestern University.

Involved in Paul Warshauer's improvisational comedy "Me-Ow" show at North Western University.

Earned her bachelor of science in speech, theater, and performance studies at Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL.

Although she used a mock shrill, off-key singing voice while paired up hilariously with music teacher "husband" Will Ferrell on SNL, Ana actually possesses an incredible vocal instrument and wowed them in a 2005 Chicago production of "Wicked" as the Wicked Witch, and, more recently, as Mrs. Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" on Broadway.

Her father, Phil Gasteyer, is the mayor of Corrales in New Mexico where he and Ana's mother, Mariana (an artist), moved in their retirement.

Is expecting her second child, a son, due March 2008.

She was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Wicked!" at the Broadway in Chicago-Wicked Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

She was nominated for a 2008 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for "Passion" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

Personal Quotes

"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita -- people shut up about it already.

Where Are They Now

(July 2005) Currently starring as Elphaba in the Chicago production of "Wicked".

(March 2006) Playing "Mrs. Peachum" in the new Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera translated by Wallace Shawn

(October 2006) performing as Elphaba the wicked witch in the Broadway production of "Wicked"

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