Cecily Strong

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1984-02-08 (40 years old)

Place of Birth Springfield, Illinois, USA

Cecily Strong

Biography

Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress and comedian who has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2012. She was born in Springfield, Illinois, and was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, an inner ring suburb of Chicago.She is the daughter of Penelope and William "Bill" Strong, who worked as an Associated Press bureau chief and is now managing partner at a Chicago public relations firm.Strong's parents are divorced.Strong grew up adoring SNL as a child, reenacting sketches with her friend and watching old SNL commercials on VHS. "I had a tape of the best commercials, and I wore it out, every day." She has stated that she was inspired by Phil Hartman. She attended Oak Park and River Forest High School before transferring for her senior year to the Chicago Academy for the Arts, where she graduated in 2002.She then studied acting at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), graduating in 2006 with a BFA in theatre. After graduating from CalArts, Strong returned to Chicago, where she studied at the Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecily Strong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Plus One

as Summer

2024
The Garfield Movie

as Marge Malone (voice)

2023
Leo

as Mrs. Malkin (voice)

2021
Schmigadoon!

as Melissa Gimble

2019
Nature Cat: A Nature Carol

as Martha Scratchit (voice)

2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

2018
Love, Gilda

as Self

2017
2017
Great News

as Jessica

2016
Ghostbusters

as Jennifer Lynch

2016
The Boss

as Dana Dandridge

2016
The Meddler

as Jillian

2016
The Bronze

as Janice Townsend

2016
Angie Tribeca

as Samantha Stephens

2015
Slow Learners

as Amber the Ex

2015
Staten Island Summer

as Mary Ellen

2015
Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special

as Self / Total Bastard Airlines Flight Attendant / Piper

2015
Superstore

as Missy Jones

2015
Scream Queens

as Catherine Hobart

2015
Man Seeking Woman

as CCN Reporter

2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

as Ginger (voice) / Orange (voice)

2012
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

as Self - Guest Judge

1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1989
The Simpsons

as Megan Matheston (voice)

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Various Characters

Producer

2021
Schmigadoon!

as Producer