Early life

Gasteyer was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Mariana Roumell-Gasteyer, an artist, and Phil Gasteyer, a lobbyist who later became the mayor of Corrales, New Mexico. Her maternal grandparents were Romanian and Greek. She graduated from Sidwell Friends School and Northwestern University School of Communication in 1989. While a teenager, she was a talking head on an uncommercial segment ("What is a friend?" Her answer: “Someone you can be weird with.”) of the short-lived PBS show Powerhouse. During her first year, she lived on the fourth floor of Willard Residential College on campus and majored in voice. She later became a theater major.

Career

Gasteyer developed comedy experience with the famed Los Angeles improv - sketch comedy group The Groundlings. She played small roles on Seinfeld (as a doomed customer of The Soup Nazi), as well as on the shows Party of Five, Frasier, Hope & Gloria and NYPD Blue. In 1996, Gasteyer joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. Among her most popular characters were high school music teacher Bobbie Mohan-Culp, National Public Radio Delicious Dish host Margaret Jo McCullen, Lilith Festival feminist singer Cinder Calhoun, and her impressions of Martha Stewart and Celine Dion. In 2000, she and Chris Parnell auditioned to succeed Colin Quinn as co-anchors of the news parody segment Weekend Update, but the positions ultimately went to Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon.

After six seasons, Gasteyer left SNL in 2002. Subsequently, she appeared in various television programs, films and stage productions. In 2004, Gasteyer played the mother of the main character Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) in the feature film Mean Girls, written by SNL castmate Tina Fey. The film also featured other former SNL castmates, including Fey, Tim Meadows, and Amy Poehler. She also appeared in the 2005 Showtime movie musical Reefer Madness as Mae, the doomed girlfriend of Jack and owner of the Reefer Den.

Gasteyer starred in a revival of The Threepenny Opera on Broadway as Mrs. Peachum, along with Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, and Cyndi Lauper. The production ran from March 24 through June 25, 2006.

On June 24, 2005, Gasteyer originated the role of Elphaba in the Chicago sit-down production of the musical Wicked. The production opened July 13, 2005. Gasteyer was nominated for a Jefferson Award for her performance. She played her final performance on January 22, 2006, replaced by her standby Kristy Cates. She later reprised the role in the Broadway production from October 10, 2006, through January 7, 2007.

On April 12, 2007, the media announced that Gasteyer had joined the cast of the then new musical, Writing Arthur, for the 2007 New Works Festival for TheatreWorks in California, which ran from April 14 to April 22. Gasteyer performed in Chicago in the Stephen Sondheim musical Passion at Chicago Shakespeare Theater from October 2, 2007 to November 11, 2007.

She was originally cast as Gloria in the Encores! Summer Series production of Damn Yankees, but due to injury during rehearsals, she was replaced by Megan Lawrence. Gasteyer took part in the reading of the Broadway musical version of "The First Wives Club."

She starred as Kitty Dean in the Broadway play, The Royal Family which began performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on September 15, 2009 and officially opened on October 8, 2009. The show concluded its run on December 13, 2009. Gasteyer also starred as Frisco Kate Fothergill in the City Centers Encores! production of Girl Crazy, running from November 19 to November 22, 2009.

She returned to Saturday Night Live for a special Mother's Day episode on May 8, 2010, and for another Mother's Day episode on May 11, 2012.

Gasteyer appeared in season eight of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's girlfriend.

From 2011 to 2014, Gasteyer co-starred as Sheila Shay on the ABC comedy series Suburgatory, and as of March 2013, she was a spokeswoman for the Weight Watchers diet plan.

In 2014, taking advantage of her training as a singer, Gasteyer recorded and released I'm Hip, an album of jazz standards. "One Mint Julep" was one of the selections it included.

In 2014, Gastayer appeared in season 2 of The Goldbergs as the drama teacher, Miss Cinoman.

On September 30, 2014, Gasteyer released her first album on the Henry's Girl Records label.

On January 6, 2015, Gasteyer guest-starred on Fox's The Mindy Project, alongside Mindy Kaling.

On January 31, 2016, Gasteyer played the role of Principal McGee in Fox's live musical adaptation Grease: Live.

Personal life

Gasteyer and her husband, Charlie McKittrick, have two children, a daughter, Frances, born in June 2002, and a son, Ulysses, born in March 2008.

Saturday Night Live characters

Original characters

• Bobbie Mohan-Culp, the operatic-voiced high school music teacher (with Will Ferrell)
• Margaret Jo McCullen, co-host of the NPR radio show Delicious Dish (with Molly Shannon)
• Gemini's Twin singer Jonette (with Maya Rudolph)
• Cinder Calhoun, a politically correct Lilith Fair singer
• Fast-talking MTV VJ Kincaid
• Daytime talk show hostess of Pretty Living, Gayle Gleeson

Celebrity impressions

• Martha Stewart (sometimes performed topless)
• Céline Dion (on The Celine Dion Show)
• Katherine Harris
• Joy Behar
• Joan Rivers
• Sally Jesse Raphael
• Elizabeth Dole
• Kathy Griffin
• Carrie Donovan (Vogue style editor featured in the Old Navy commercials)
• Bea Arthur
• Barbra Streisand (auditioning for Star Wars)
• Helen Thomas
• Hillary Clinton
• Lisa Kudrow (as Phoebe Buffay)

Filmography

Film

Title	Role	Year
A Small Domain	Mother	1996
Courting Courtney	Rosemary Colletti	1997
Meet the Deedles	Mel	1998
Dick	Rose Mary Woods	1999
Woman on Top	Claudia Hunter	2000
What Women Want	Sue Cranston	2000
What's the Worst That Could Happen?	Ann Marie	2001
Mean Girls	Cady's Mom	2004
Reefer Madness: The Musical	Mae Coleman	2005
The Procedure	Denise	2007
Finn on the Fly	Dr. Madsen	2008
The Women	Pat	2008
Dare	Ruth Berger	2009
That's My Boy	Mrs. Ravensdale	2012
Fun Size	Jackie Leroux	2012
Robot & Frank	Shop lady	2012
Rapture-Palooza	Mrs. Lewis	2013
Geography Club	Mrs. Toles	2013

TV

Title	Character	Notes	Year
Seinfeld	Woman	1 episode	1995
Saturday Night Live	Various	121 episodes	1996-2002
Hope and Gloria	Girl	1 episode	1996
Party of Five	Emcee	1 episode	1996
NYPD Blue	Angie	1 episode	1996
Law & Order	Monica's Social Worker	1 episode	1998
Just Shoot Me!	April	1 episode	1998
Mad About You	Yoga Woman	1 episode	1998
3rd Rock from the Sun	Dr. Brand	1 episode	2000
Geppetto	Sra. Giovanni	TV musical	2000
TV Funhouse	Various	3 episodes	2000-2001
Frasier	Trish Haney	1 episode	2002
I'm with Her	Bonnie	1 episode	2003
Valentine	Mona McAllister	1 episode	2009
The Electric Company	Sandy Scrambler	1 episode	2009
Chuck	Dasha	1 episode	2010
Running Wilde	Anna Lowry	1 episode	2010
The Good Wife	Judge Patrice Lessner	3 episodes	2010-2011
Curb Your Enthusiasm	Jennifer	2 episodes	2011
Suburgatory	Sheila Shay	series regular	2011-2014
The Goldbergs	Miss Cinoman	recurring character	2014-present
Younger	Meredith Montgomery	1 episode	2015
Harvey Beaks	Tara	1 episode	2015
Celebrity Name Game	Self	1 episode	2015
Grease: Live	Principal McGee	TV musical	2016
The Lion Guard	Reirei	1 episode	2016
Lady Dynamite	Karen Grisham		2016

Web

Title	Character	Episodes	Year
Going There with Ana Gasteyer	Herself	9	2015-present

Charities

Ana Gasteyer supports the following charitable causes: Breast Cancer, Cancer.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]