Cecily Strong
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Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian
She known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, having joined the show in 2012. Strong performed regularly at The Second City and iO Chicago. Strong has performed on a “cruise ship with fellow Second City members for four months”. She appeared at the Chicago Sketch Fest, Chicago Just for Laughs, New York Sketchfest, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the Goodman Theater, Bailiwick Theater, the Mercury Theater, and with the all-female improv troupe Virgin Daiquiri.
Saturday Night Live Strong debuted as a featured player on Saturday Night Live on September 15, 2012. Strong co-anchored the recurring Weekend Update segment with Seth Meyers, beginning with the season 39 premiere. Strong later co-anchored with Colin Jost, and was replaced on Weekend Update with writer Michael Che, beginning with the season 40 premiere in September 2014, partly at her own request to focus on doing sketches as a part of the regular cast.
Strong’s recurring characters include an extremely ditzy, unintelligent and unnamed pseudo-activist known as “The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party”, Dana (one of a pair of loud-mouthed, unfriendly retail employees who always insult their coworkers out of fear of being fired), Heather the One-Dimensional Female Character from a Male-Driven Comedy, Kyra from “The Girlfriends Talk Show”, Cathy Anne, the drug addict neighbor of Michael Che, who has a strong opinion on current events, and an unnamed blond former porn star-turned-model/commercial actress who hawks elegant items. Most of her recurring characters are either very feminine, polished, youthful and/or mentally unstable. Her celebrity impressions include Brooke Baldwin, Maria Bartiromo, Gloria Borger, Paula Broadwell, Erin Burnett, Marion Cotillard, Stormy Daniels, Lana Del Rey, Fran Drescher, Gloria Estefan, Dianne Feinstein, Carly Fiorina, Ariana Grande, Hope Hicks, Scottie Nell Hughes, Anjelica Huston, Kendall Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Jill Kelley, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Koenig, Tara Lipinski, Rachel Maddow, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Liza Minnelli, Alanis Morissette, Jeanine Pirro, Michelle Rodriguez, Melania Trump, Ivana Trump, Sofia Vergara and Allison Williams. Strong was the featured entertainer at the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (cracking that she was the first straight woman to be so in twenty years). She lambasted the various news organizations in attendance, politicians of all persuasions, and President Obama. She also took shots at the US Secret Service, host location the Washington Hilton, Brian Williams, Sarah Koenig, and the state of Indiana. In 2016, she appeared in a commercial for Old Navy, alongside other SNL cast members Nasim Pedrad and Jay Pharoah. That year, Strong also joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as a celebrity correspondent. In 2016, she guest starred as Samantha Stevens in TBS’s Angie Tribeca and Catherine Hobart in FOX’s Scream Queens. She appeared in a series of commercials for Triscuit in 2017.
