Ayo Edebiri
Acting
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).
Born: October 3, 1995 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Filmography (45)
Ella McCay
2025
I Love LA
2025
After the Hunt
2025
Opus
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024
Omni Loop
2024
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2024
Inside Out 2
2024
The Sweet East
2023
Bottoms
2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023
Theater Camp
2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
Clone High
2023
Mulligan
2023
We Lost Our Human
2023
Kiff
2023
History of the World: Part II
2023
Sherri
2022
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
2022
The Bear
2022
Abbott Elementary
2021
Cicada
2021
The Premise
2021
How It Ends
2021
Shithouse
2020
Dickinson
2019
Sunnyside
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
2019
What We Do in the Shadows
2019
Craig of the Creek
2018
Big Mouth
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Black Mirror
2011
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Daily Show
1996
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944