Rudolph's self-titled variety show television pilot aired on May 19, 2014, but the show did not go beyond that. She co-starred in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett. In 2011, she appeared in Bridesmaids with Saturday Night Live colleague Kristen Wiig, and in 2013 she played a supporting role in The Way, Way Back as the girlfriend of Sam Rockwell's character. In 2010, she appeared in Grown Ups starring Adam Sandler, where she played the wife of Chris Rock's character. Rudolph guest-starred as character Athena Scooberman in NBC's Kath & Kim, and starred in the film Away We Go with The Office star John Krasinski. She guest-starred as Julia in The Simpsons episode " The Homer of Seville". She also guest-starred as Rapunzel in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek the Third. Earlier, she had costarred with Luke Wilson in the 2005 Mike Judge sci-fi comedy Idiocracy, although that film was shelved until September 2006 and then only given a limited release. Her first prominent film role came in 2006 with A Prairie Home Companion. She had small parts in Chuck & Buck, Gattaca, As Good as It Gets, Duplex, and Duets she was also a music supervisor for Duets.
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She has appeared in many other television shows, including the CBS medical drama series City of Angels and Chicago Hope. Since the 45th-season premiere, she has occasionally portrayed Vice President Kamala Harris, a performance acknowledged by Harris. She has made several cameo appearances over the years. She joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player for the final three episodes of the 1999–2000 season through 2007. Rudolph was in the improv troupe the Groundlings, where she met future Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte.
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She incorporated this into her performance on The Midnight Special. Near the end of the song " Lovin' You", Riperton repeats "Maya". Rudolph's parents moved to Los Angeles, California, when she and her brother Marc were very young, and they grew up primarily in the Westwood neighborhood. Rudolph's godmother was R&B singer Teena Marie. Her great-grandfather was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, changed his surname from "Rudashevsky" to "Rudolph", and was one of the founding members of Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her paternal grandfather was Sidney Rudolph, a philanthropist who once owned all of the Wendy's and Rudy's restaurants in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Her mother was African-American and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish. Rudolph was born in Gainesville, Florida, to singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton and composer Richard Rudolph.
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She continued to reprise the role throughout 2020 while Harris campaigned for and was elected vice president. For her portrayal of United States senator and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
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She appeared in the NBC fantasy comedy series The Good Place (2018–2020), for which she received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She voiced various characters in the Netflix animated sitcom Big Mouth, which won her Primetime Emmy Awards in 20, and the Fox animated sitcom Bless the Harts. Rudolph starred as Ava Alexander in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, and co-hosted the variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short. She also provided voice acting roles for the animated films Shrek the Third, Big Hero 6, The Angry Birds Movie, The Emoji Movie, The Willoughbys, The Mitchells vs. Īfter leaving SNL in 2007, Rudolph appeared in the films Grown Ups, Bridesmaids, Inherent Vice, Sisters, CHiPs, Life of the Party and Wine Country. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live ( SNL) and later played supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates, A Prairie Home Companion, and Idiocracy. Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American comedian, actress, and singer.