Aubrey Plaza

Background

Aubrey Christina Plaza was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of attorney Bernadette Plaza and financial specialist David Plaza. Her father is Puerto Rican, while her mother is Irish and English. Plaza graduated from a Catholic all-girls school in 2002 and from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2006. She was president of her high school’s student government and participated in Wilmington Drama League productions during her time as a senior. In 2004, while she was in her second year of college, Plaza had a stroke that left her with expressive aphasia and a period of paralysis. She is now fully recovered.

Since 2004, Plaza has been doing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. She has also performed stand-up comedy at the Laugh Factory and The Improv in N.Y.C. Plaza appeared in E.S.P.N.’s “Mayne Street” and “The Jeannie Tate Show” as Robin Gibney, as well as the first episode of “Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz.” On CollegeHumor’s “Troopers,” she played the Princess, a satirical sci-fi character. Plaza made her saxophone debut in Cassorla’s ‘Bona Fide’ in 2014. However, she first featured in Father John Misty’s ‘Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings’ in 2012.

In 2016, Plaza was featured on “HarmonQuest” as Hawaiian Coffee, a gnome. The same year, she portrayed Aaron Burr In “Drunk History” and Cat Adams in Season 11 of the C.B.S. television series “Criminal Minds.” She made a triumphant comeback to the role in Season 12. A year later, it was confirmed that Plaza would appear in the indie comedy “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn.”