Biography of Ana Gasteyer -

Ana Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967 in Washington, DC)
is a comedian who established herself as a cast
member of Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1996.

She graduated from Sidwell Friends School and
Northwestern University.  She got her role on SNL
due to her experience with the famed Los Angeles
improv-sketch comedy group called The Groundlings.

Gasteyer created several well-known SNL characters
during History of SNL:1995-2000|her time there,
including middle school music teacher Bobbie
Moughan-Culp (opposite Will Ferrell), NPR radio
host Margaret Jo McCullen (opposite Molly
Shannon), one half of Gemini's Twin (together with
Maya Rudolph), and Lilith Fair poetess Cinder
Calhoun, as well as spot-on Impressionist
(entertainment)|impressions of Martha Stewart,
CÃ©line Dion, Katherine Harris, Joy Behar, Kathy
Griffin, Helen Thomas, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Ana left SNL in 2002, and since then has appeared
in various television programs and films,
including Mean Girls.  She is currently starring
as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the
play "Wicked" at the Oriental Theater in Chicago.

She and her husband, Charlie McKittrick, have a
daughter, Frances (with whom she was famously
pregnant during her last season on SNL).

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Biography of Ana Gasteyer -