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Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She has been a cast member on Saturday Night Live since 2017, beginning in season 43.

Heidi Gardner
Born	Heidi Lynn Gardner (1983-07-27) July 27, 1983 (age 39) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actress comedian
Years active	2011–present
Spouse	Zeb Wells ​ (m. 2010)​

Early life

Gardner was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri.[1] She grew up with an older brother, Justin.[2]

Growing up, Gardner worked part-time at the Tivoli Theater, where she did everything "from selling tickets to making popcorn." She later credited the theater as "setting the tone in her life."[3] Gardner was not interested in acting as a child, only performing on stage as a flutist for the school band and doing comedy sketches in school talent shows.[4] Gardner graduated from the all-girls Catholic high school Notre Dame de Sion in 2001. In her senior year, she was voted by her classmates as "Most likely to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live."[2] Upon graduation, Gardner followed in the footsteps of a friend and enrolled at the University of Kansas for two years, before transferring to the University of Missouri. Although she became uninterested in school and often skipped classes, Gardner discovered a fondness for haircutting.[4]

Career

At the age of 21, Gardner dropped out of college and left Missouri to move to Los Angeles, where she worked at a hair salon for nine years.[5] Prior to the move, she saved up $600 over one summer.[6] She was encouraged by a friend to attend a performance at The Groundlings theatre, where she became inspired to become an actress.[5] Due to her lack of acting experience, Gardner enrolled in community workshops to learn the basics of improvising. Once she was comfortable, Gardner auditioned into the Groundlings basic class and was accepted.[4]

In 2014, Gardner joined the Sunday Company, and a year later, after a promotion to the Main Company, she quit her job as a hairstylist to focus on acting.[4] During that time, she became a voice actress,[7] regularly appearing on animated series such as Bratz, SuperMansion, and Mike Tyson Mysteries.[8] In 2017, Gardner joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) for its forty-third season.[6]

Following her first year on SNL, Gardner was hired to play the supporting role of Leonor in the Ben Falcone-directed film Life of the Party, alongside Melissa McCarthy.[4] On August 28, 2019, TVLine reported that Gardner would have a guest role on the NBC comedy series Superstore playing Dina Fox's nemesis Colleen who is transferred to Store 1217 after Cloud 9’s Bel-Ridge location gets shut down.[9] In 2019, Gardner made her stage debut in Michael Frayn's Noises Off at The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts.[10]

Recurring characters on Saturday Night Live[11]

• Angel (Every Boxer's Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever), a distressed woman who tries to give "Weekend Update's Good News Report," but inevitably derails into melodramatic rants about her boyfriend's dangerous boxing career.
• Bailey Gismert, a teen film critic who gives awkward reviews.
• Brie Bacardi, one half of a shallow couple always on the brink of an argument, who runs a relationship-themed Instagram account with her boyfriend Nico Slobkin (Mikey Day).
• Baskin Johns, a woman who works for Goop and gets worried Gwyneth Paltrow will fire her.
• Mandy, a cousin of a celebrity that shames their movie careers
• Sandy, a joyful cook of a baking reality competition show that is qualified and skilled though she often gets passed over as a winner for more poorly-constructed and eccentric cakes
• Tamra, an intern who pitches Instagram captions for Mattel's Barbie account
• Deidre, one half of a couple who describe their vacation to their friends, naïvely misinterpreting poor experiences as prestigious culture

Personal life

Gardner met her husband, Marvel Comics writer Zeb Wells, while she was a member of the Groundlings.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Dibs!	Erica
2018	Life of the Party	Leonor
2018	Making Babies	Meg
2019	Otherhood	Erin
2022	Hustle	Kat Merrick

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Mike Tyson Mysteries	Old Woman (voice)	Episode: "Love Letters"
2017–present	Saturday Night Live	Various
2019	The Other Two	Mona	Episode: "Chase Turns Fourteen"
2019	Veep	Amanda White	Episode: "Discovery Weekend"
2019	Alien News Desk	Tuva Van Void (voice)	12 episodes
2019	American Dad!	Various voices	Episode: "Lost Boys"
2019	Mike Tyson Mysteries	Jennifer (voice)	Episode: "The Yung and The Restless"
2019	Superstore	Colleen	Episode: "Forced Hire"
2020	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Jenny	Special: "Kimmy vs the Reverend"
2021	Close Enough	Becca (voice)	Episode: "Houseguest From Hell"
2021	Crank Yankers		Episode: "Chelsea Peretti, Heidi Gardner & J.B. Smoove"
2022	Is It Cake?	Herself (Judge)	Episode: "Toying Around"
2022	Girls5eva	Cara	Episode: "Album Mode"
2022	That Damn Michael Che		Episode: "Higher Power"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Adult Wednesday	Hairdresser	Episode: "The Haircut"
2015	Bratz	Yasmin (voice)	8 episodes
2015–19	SuperMansion	Various voices	46 episodes
2016	CollegeHumor Originals	Patient	Episode: "Why Are My Nipples Pixelated?"

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	Heads Will Roll	Various voices	10 episodes
2021	Batman: The Audio Adventures	Harley Quinn, Miss Tuesday

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Locations
2019	Noises Off	Brooke Ashton/Vicki	The Cape Playhouse

Writing credits

Web

Year	Title	Notes
2015	Bratz	3 episodes
2015–17	SuperMansion	11 episodes

References

External links

• Heidi Gardner on Instagram
• Heidi Gardner at IMDb

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