Kristen Schaal
Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/;[1] born January 24, 1978) is an American actress. Known for her distinctive child-like voice, she has voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls. She also played Mel on Flight of the Conchords, The Guide on What We Do in the Shadows, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler, and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provided several voices for BoJack Horseman; for the character of Sarah Lynn, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game Anthem.
Kristen Schaal
- Actress
- comedian
- writer
1999–present
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Early life[edit]
Schaal was born on January 24, 1978, in Longmont, Colorado,[2] to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry.[3] She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado.[3] Her father is a construction worker and her mother a secretary.[4]
Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older.[4] She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year[5] and graduated from Northwestern University.[3] She then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".[6]
Personal life[edit]
Schaal has been married to comedy writer Rich Blomquist since 2012.[89][90] On February 11, 2018, she gave birth to a daughter named Ruby.[91]
In 2017, during a charity stream hosted by Ethan Klein, Schaal revealed that she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a ruptured fallopian tube during an unspecified recording session for Gravity Falls, losing at least two litres of blood, and she underwent emergency surgery after being rushed to the hospital.[92]