Jenny Slate
{{short description|American actress, comedian, and writer (born 1982)}}
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| name = Jenny Slate
| image = Jenny Slate Obvious Child Premiere 2014 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Slate at the 2014 Obvious Child premiere
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|3|25}}
| birth_place = Milton, Massachusetts, United States
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Dean Fleischer Camp|2012|2016|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Ben Shattuck
|2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/jenny-slate-interview-2022/|title=Enter the Weird, Wonderful World of Jenny Slate|date=January 18, 2022|work=Marie Claire|access-date=January 19, 2022}}
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| children = 1
| education = Columbia University (BA)
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Actress
- comedian
- television writer
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| years_active = 2005–present
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Jenny Slate (born March 25, 1982) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer. Following her early acting and stand-up roles on television, Slate gained recognition for her live variety shows in New York City and for co-creating the children's short film and book series Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2010–2014) with Dean Fleischer Camp, whom she was married to from 2012 to 2016. Slate became more widely known as a cast member on the 35th season of Saturday Night Live in 2009, followed by her roles in the sitcoms Bob's Burgers (2012–present), Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), House of Lies (2013–2015), and Kroll Show (2013–2015).
Slate's breakout role came with her leading performance in Gillian Robespierre's coming-of-age dramedy film Obvious Child (2014), for which she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. She lent her voice performances in the animated films The Lorax (2012), Zootopia (2016), The Secret Life of Pets (2016), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), and Despicable Me 3 (2017), and ventured into dramatic roles with her supporting performance in Gifted (2017). She also appeared in the Daniels' critically acclaimed film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Early life and education
Slate was born on March 25, 1982, in Milton, Massachusetts,{{cite web |title=Jenny Slate's Dad Used to Run a Trick-or-Treating Candy Scheme During Halloween |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgpohh95VAY |website=YouTube}}{{cite magazine| url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jenny-slate/bio/298545/|title=Jenny Slate| magazine=TV Guide| access-date=May 11, 2016|archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151009075429/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/jenny-slate/bio/298545/|url-status=dead}} to Ron Slate,{{cite web|url=http://www.ronslate.com/about_ron_slate|title=About Ron Slate - On the Seawall: A Literary Website by Ron Slate (GD)|publisher=RonSlate.com|access-date=September 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819203816/http://ronslate.com/about_ron_slate|archive-date=August 19, 2018|url-status=dead}} a businessman and poet who worked as vice president of global communications for the EMC Corporation and later as CEO of a biotech startup,{{Cite news|url= http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2009/02/27/questions-for-jenny-slate |title=Questions For: Jenny Slate |date=February 27, 2009 |work=Boston Daily |access-date=August 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113152818/http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2009/02/27/questions-for-jenny-slate |archive-date=November 13, 2009 }}Slate, Ron (April 7, 2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=DJM1pnyJC2MC&q=Jenny&pg=PT64 The Incentive of the Maggot]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. v. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved September 10, 2014. and Nancy (née Gilson), a housewife who also made pottery.{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/130066/|title=Comedian Jenny Slate in Obvious Child|date=June 30, 2014|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=June 30, 2014}} She is the middle child of three, with an older sister, Abigail, and younger sister, Stacey.{{Cite news|url=http://www.miltontimes.com/DOTnet-frontJUMPS-JennySlate.html |title=Jenny Slate Joins the Cast of 'Saturday Night Live' |last=Kurtz Ferrari |first=Kathy |date=September 24, 2009 |work=Milton Times |access-date=August 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714094755/http://www.miltontimes.com/DOTnet-frontJUMPS-JennySlate.html |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}{{cite web|last1=Yuan|first1=Jada|title=The Year of Living Publicly |url= http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/jenny-slate-gifted-chris-evans-breakup.html|publisher=Vulture.com|access-date=March 21, 2017|date=March 21, 2017}} She and her family are Jewish.{{Cite news| url=http://www.laweekly.com/arts/jenny-slate-2612392|title=Jenny Slate|last=Molyneaux|first=Libby|date=December 6, 2012|work=LA Weekly|access-date=June 23, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/227356/drawing-inspiration-from-jenny-slates-game-changing-hair|title=Jewish Comedian Jenny Slate on Learning to Love Her Curly Hair|access-date=June 23, 2018|date=March 13, 2017|last=Cooper|first=Miranda|work=Tablet Magazine}} One of her grandmothers was born in Cuba and raised in France.{{cite web|url=http://bullettmedia.com/article/jenny-slate-career-making-film-obvious-child/ |title=Jenny Slate On Her Career-Making Film 'Obvious Child' |work=bullettmedia.com |access-date=May 15, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023215249/http://bullettmedia.com/article/jenny-slate-career-making-film-obvious-child/ |archive-date=October 23, 2015 }}
After graduating from Milton Academy as valedictorian, Slate attended Columbia University as a literature major, where she helped form the improv group Fruit Paunch, starred in the Varsity Show{{Cite news|url= http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2002/05/03/varsity-show-reach-exceeds-its-grasp|title=Varsity Show Reach Exceeds Its Grasp|last=Fitzner|first=Ana|date=May 3, 2002|work=Columbia Spectator|access-date=August 18, 2010}} and met Gabe Liedman, who would become her comedy partner.{{Cite news|url= http://intothegloss.com/2014/06/jenny-slate-quote/|title=Jenny Slate|date=June 2014|work=Into the Gloss|access-date=July 2, 2014}} Slate graduated from Columbia in 2004.{{Cite web|last=Agresta|first=Mike|date=Fall 2011|title=Behind the Shell|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/fall11/features6|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Columbia College Today|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815131454/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/fall11/features6|url-status=dead}}
Career
She and Gabe Liedman formed the comedy duo Gabe & Jenny.{{Cite news| url= http://gothamist.com/2009/06/10/gabe_liedman_and_jenny_slate_comedi.php|title=Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, Comedians| last=Parker|first=Billy|date=June 10, 2009|work=Gothamist|access-date=August 18, 2010| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100304101223/http://gothamist.com/2009/06/10/gabe_liedman_and_jenny_slate_comedi.php|archive-date=March 4, 2010}} Their stand-up shows with Max Silvestri, "Big Terrific", were named best new variety show of 2008 by Time Out New York.{{Cite news|url=http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/comedy/69876/comedy-the-best-and-worst-of-2008|title=Comedy: The best (and worst) of 2008|last=Borden|first=Jane|date=December 2008|work=Time Out New York|access-date=August 18, 2010}} In 2015, Slate, Liedman, and Silvestri ended the show, citing their busy schedules,{{cite web | work= vulture.com |url= http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/slate-liedman-and-silvestri-on-big-terrific.html|title=Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri on the End of Their Weekly Comedy Show, Big Terrific|date=April 22, 2015}} though they have since occasionally performed together.
Slate first met Liedman in 2000 while attending Columbia University.{{Cite news| url= http://gothamist.com/2007/05/04/gabe_liedman_an.php|title=Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, A Night with Gabe and Jenny|last=Karakh|first=Ben|date=May 4, 2007|work=Gothamist|access-date=August 18, 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100412000839/http://gothamist.com/2007/05/04/gabe_liedman_an.php|archive-date=April 12, 2010}} They describe their relationship as a "nonsexual romance"; Slate says, "I like to think of us as kind of like [Seinfeld characters] Elaine Benes and George Costanza, but we like each other." Throughout 2008 and 2009, Slate regularly performed her one-woman show Jenny Slate: Dead Millionaire at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCBT) in New York City.{{Cite web| url=http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/performers/3982 |title=Jenny Slate |work=Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre |access-date= August 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100830030251/http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/performers/3982 |archive-date=August 30, 2010 }}
File:Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman in 2007.jpg in 2007]]
Slate was a regular commentator on many VH1 "talking head" commentary programs. In early 2009, she made several appearances on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon recurring sketch "7th Floor West", where she played an NBC page, later promoted to Fallon's assistant. She had a recurring role in Bored to Death,{{Cite news| url= http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/09/vulture_interviews_new_saturda.html|title=Vulture Interviews New Saturday Night Live Cast Member Jenny Slate|date=September 11, 2009|work=Vulture|publisher=New York Magazine|access-date=August 18, 2010}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2009/11/09/bored-to-death-jenny-slate-hbo/|title='Bored to Death:' Jenny Slate, please come back|last=Barrett|first=Annie|date=November 9, 2009|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=March 13, 2019}} and guest appearances on several television programs.
Slate joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 2009–10 season.{{Cite web|url= http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/bios/jenny-slate.shtml |title=Jenny Slate |access-date=September 28, 2009|website= Saturday Night Live}}{{Cite web|url= http://www.tvguide.com/News/SNL-New-Cast-1009401.aspx |title=Saturday Night Live Adds Two New Cast Members|last=Bryant|first=Adam|date=September 9, 2009|work=TV Guide}}{{cite web |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |date=September 7, 2010 |title='Saturday Night Live' Cast Adds Four and Loses One More |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/saturday-night-live-cast-adds-four-and-loses-one-more |access-date=February 24, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times}} In her first episode, she accidentally said "fucking" during her debut sketch, which was heard on the live broadcast, but removed from reruns.Schwindt, Oriana (September 15, 2014). "What's Worth Watching". TV Guide. p. 79{{Cite news| url= http://www.pbpulse.com/tv/saturday-night-live/2009/09/28/saturday-night-live-starts-season-with-f-bomb/#more-32270 |title='Saturday Night Live' starts season with F-bomb|date=September 28, 2009|agency=Associated Press|access-date=August 18, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824155835/http://www.pbpulse.com/tv/saturday-night-live/2009/09/28/saturday-night-live-starts-season-with-f-bomb/#more-32270|archive-date=August 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/12/13/jenny-slate-drops-the-f-bomb-on-snl/|title=TV Moment of 2009: Jenny Slate Drops the F-Bomb on 'SNL'|last=Hollowell|first=Jenny|date=December 13, 2009|work=TV Squad|access-date=August 18, 2010}} Amongst various impressions, she was best known for Tina-Tina Cheneuse, an infomercial pitcher who advertises personalized doorbells, car horns, and alarm clocks.{{cite web|last=Anne|first=Sarah |url= http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/09/jenny_slate_leaves_saturday_ni.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121006203731/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/09/jenny_slate_leaves_saturday_ni.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= October 6, 2012| title=Celebritology 2.0 – Jenny Slate leaves 'Saturday Night Live', and we ask, what went wrong?|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 8, 2010}} Despite rumors to the contrary, Slate has insisted that her SNL termination was not due to cursing but rather simply because "I didn't click."{{cite web |last1=Truong |first1=Kimberly |title=The Radical Vulnerability of Jenny Slate |url=https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/jenny-slate-little-weirds-stage-fright-interview-2019 |website=inStyle |access-date=24 October 2019}}
In August 2010, she co-wrote and voiced the animated short film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. This led to Marcel the Shell with Shoes on, Two.{{Cite magazine |url= https://ew.com/article/2010/08/17/jenny-slatess-marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-is-fantastic/|title=Jenny Slates's 'Marcel the Shell with Shoes On' is fantastic|last=Lyons|first=Margaret|date=August 17, 2010|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=March 13, 2019|archive-date=July 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713074827/http://ew.com/article/2010/08/17/jenny-slatess-marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-is-fantastic/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url= http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/08/exclusive-snl-star-jenny-slate-chats-about-marcel-the-shell/1|title=Exclusive: 'SNL' star Jenny Slate chats about 'Marcel the Shell'|last=Matheson|first=Whitney|date=August 29, 2010|department=Pop Candy|work=USA Today|access-date=August 30, 2010}} Slate also wrote a "Marcel"-themed children's book that was released on November 1, 2011.{{cite web|last=Swerdloff |first=Alexis |url=http://www.papermag.com/arts_and_style/2010/11/jenny-slate-emerges-from-her-shellas-a-shell.php |title=Jenny Slate Emerges From Her Shell ... As A Shell |publisher= | work= Papermag.com |date=November 3, 2010 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101106165211/http://www.papermag.com/arts_and_style/2010/11/jenny-slate-emerges-from-her-shellas-a-shell.php |archive-date=November 6, 2010 }}
Her first live film role was as Zoe in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked; more films followed in 2012, including the voice of Ted's mother in The Lorax.
Her first appearance in Parks and Recreation was in the 2013 episode "Bailout", in which she portrayed Mona-Lisa Saperstein. Following this, Slate released her own 12-episode mini-series on YouTube called Catherine, celebrating late 1980s and early 1990s soap-opera aesthetics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2940332/ |title=Catherine|website=IMDb|date=May 19, 2013|access-date=June 23, 2016}}
In 2014, Slate starred in the comedy-drama film Obvious Child, which follows the life of a young stand-up comic as she grapples with an unplanned pregnancy and eventual abortion.{{cite web|last1=Pickett|first1=Leah|title=Performance of the Year: Jenny Slate|url=https://consequence.net/2014/12/performance-of-the-year-2014/|website=Consequence of Sound|date=December 15, 2014}} Slate went on to win the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy,{{cite web|last1=Cappadona|first1=Bryanna|title=Jenny Slate Wins Big at the Critics' Choice Awards| url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/01/16/jenny-slate-critics-choice-awards-2015/|website=Boston Magazine|date=January 16, 2015|access-date=January 15, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170116184140/http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2015/01/16/jenny-slate-critics-choice-awards-2015/|url-status=dead}} Best Breakout Performance at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Virtuosos Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Best Comedic Actress at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards for her performance in the film.
Slate co-starred with Judy Greer and Nat Faxon in the first season of the FX series Married.{{cite web |url=http://splitsider.com/2014/01/fx-orders-series-starring-nat-faxon-judy-greer-brett-gelman-and-jenny-slate-coming-in-july/ |title=FX Orders Series Starring Nat Faxon, Judy Greer, Brett Gelman, and Jenny Slate; Coming in July |publisher=Splitsider |date=January 24, 2014 |access-date=June 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023838/http://splitsider.com/2014/01/fx-orders-series-starring-nat-faxon-judy-greer-brett-gelman-and-jenny-slate-coming-in-july/ |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }} She still appeared in a few episodes after season one. Sarah Burns took her place in the series.
Slate appeared as Liz B. in the recurring "PubLIZity" sketches in Kroll Show, as well as many other recurring and one-off characters, performing in some capacity in almost every episode until the series ended in 2015. In 2016, Slate voiced Dawn Bellwether in the Disney film Zootopia and Gidget in The Secret Life of Pets.
Slate and her father co-wrote a book titled About the House, about their time living in Slate's childhood home in Milton, Massachusetts, which was published in December 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/blog/2016/11/03/jenny-slate-milton-house/|title=Jenny Slate and Her Father Wrote a Book About Their House in Milton|date=November 3, 2016|access-date=February 15, 2017|author=Madeline Bilis|periodical=Boston Magazine|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116184508/http://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/blog/2016/11/03/jenny-slate-milton-house/|url-status=dead}}
From 2017 until 2019, Slate voiced the biracial character Missy Foreman-Greenwald on the animated Netflix series Big Mouth. Slate exited the role on June 24, 2020, writing on Instagram that "At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White — as am I. But Missy is also Black and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people."{{cite web |last1=Otterson |first1=Joe |date=June 24, 2020 |title=Jenny Slate Exits 'Big Mouth': 'Black Characters Should Be Played by Black People' |url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/jenny-slate-big-mouth-missy-1234648600/ |access-date=June 24, 2020 |website=Variety}} In 2017, Slate starred in the film Gifted as Bonnie Stevenson, the teacher of a 7-year-old mathematical genius.
In October 2019, Slate released a stand-up comedy special on Netflix, titled Stage Fright.
Slate published her book titled Little Weirds, about her struggles with and thoughts about life and relationships, in 2019.
In 2022, Slate appeared in the critically acclaimed science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once as Big Nose. Her character's original name was changed to Debbie the Dog Mom for the film's digital release due to its association with Jewish stereotypes.{{cite web |last=Lussier |first=Germain |date=May 4, 2022 |title=Everything Everywhere All at Once Will Change a Problematic Credit for Its Digital Release |url=https://gizmodo.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-will-fix-problematic-1848880772 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504213941/https://gizmodo.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-will-fix-problematic-1848880772 |archive-date=May 4, 2022 |access-date=May 5, 2022 |website=Gizmodo}} For their performance the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Personal life
Slate lived in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, before moving with filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp to Los Angeles in the early 2010s.{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/laugh-track-jenny-slates-winding-road-from-snl-to-obvious-child-20140602|title=How Jenny Slate Went from an 'SNL' Blunder to 'Obvious ChildSuccess|last=Battan|first=Carrie|date=June 2, 2014|magazine=Rolling Stone|quote=Slate decamped for Los Angeles a couple of years ago with her now-husband, director Dean Fleischer-Camp.|access-date=June 4, 2014|archive-date=May 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506044721/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/laugh-track-jenny-slates-winding-road-from-snl-to-obvious-child-20140602|url-status=live}} In September 2012, Slate married Fleischer-Camp.{{cite news |last=Killoran |first=Ellen |url=http://www.thelmagazine.com/gyrobase/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-jenny-slate/Content?oid=2104645&storyPage=1 |title=The Rise and Fall and Rise of Jenny Slate |work=L Magazine |date=May 25, 2011 |access-date=June 19, 2011 |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119145800/http://www.thelmagazine.com/gyrobase/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-jenny-slate/Content?oid=2104645&storyPage=1 |url-status=dead }} They collaborated on the Marcel the Shell with Shoes On franchise, including the books, the short films, and later, the 2021 feature film. The pair announced their separation in May 2016, after which she briefly dated fellow actor Chris Evans.{{Cite web|first=Jada|last=Yuan|url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/jenny-slate-gifted-chris-evans-breakup.html|title=Jenny Slate Talks About Her Breakup with Chris Evans|website=Vulture|date=March 21, 2017}}
In September 2019, Slate announced her engagement to art curator and author Ben Shattuck, owner of Davolls General Store.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/entertainment/jenny-slate-engaged-trnd/index.html|title=Jenny Slate is engaged to art curator boyfriend Ben Shattuck|first=Marianne |last=Garvey|website=CNN|date=September 10, 2019}}{{Cite web |last=Shea |first=Christopher |date=3 May 2022 |title=In debut book, Ben Shattuck retraces Thoreau while finding himself |url=https://dartmouth.theweektoday.com/article/debut-book-ben-shattuck-retraces-thoreau-while-finding-himself/57794 |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=Dartmouth |language=en}} On February 3, 2021, Slate announced that she had given birth to a daughter in late 2020.{{Cite web |last=VanHoose |date=February 3, 2021 |first=Benjamin |title='Our Sweet Gal!' Jenny Slate Welcomes Daughter Ida Lupine: 'Being a Mother Is Such a Joy' |url=https://people.com/parents/jenny-slate-fiance-welcome-first-child-daughter-ida-lupine/}} After three attempts at a wedding were canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic,{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Dave |date=January 18, 2022 |title=Enter the Weird, Wonderful World of Jenny Slate |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/jenny-slate-interview-2022/ |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=Marie Claire |language=en-US}} they married in their living room on New Year's Eve 2021.
Filmography
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Starved | Member of Belt Tighteners
|Uncredited; Episode: "The Breatharians" | |
| 2008 | The Whitest Kids U' Know | Trevor's Date
|Episode #2.1 | |
| rowspan="3" | 2009 | Important Things with Demetri Martin | Bride
|Episode: "Chairs" | |
| Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Jenny the Page
|8 episodes | ||
| Brothers | Annette
|2 episodes | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2009–2010 | Saturday Night Live | Various
|22 episodes | |
| Bored to Death | Stella
|5 episodes | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2011 | Ugly Americans | Jaclyn (voice)
|Episode: "Lily and the Beast" | |
| The Electric Company | Runner
|Episode: "Off Target" | ||
| 2012 | Raising Hope | Joan
|2 episodes | |
| 2012–2016 | Girls | Tally Schifrin
|2 episodes | |
| 2012–present | Bob's Burgers | Tammy Larsen (voice) | |
| 2013 | Hello Ladies | Amelia Gordon
|4 episodes | |
| 2013–15 | Kroll Show | Various
|14 episodes | |
| 2013–16 | House of Lies | Sarah Guggenheim
|11 episodes | |
| 2013–15 | Parks and Recreation | Mona-Lisa Saperstein
|9 episodes | |
| 2013–16 | Drunk History | Herself
|3 episodes | |
| 2014 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Bianca
| Episode: "Undercover" | |
| 2014–15 | Married | Jess
|14 episodes | |
| 2015–19 | Star vs. the Forces of Evil | Pony Head (voice) | |
| 2016–18 | Adventure Time | Huntress Wizard (voice) | |
| rowspan="3" | 2016 | David: Story of David | Elizabeth
|Web series | |
| Animals | Snake (voice) | ||
| Zoolander: Super Model | Nani (voice)
|Television film | ||
| 2016–17 | Lady Dynamite | Karen Grisham
|4 episodes | |
| 2017 | Comrade Detective | Jane (voice)
|6 episodes | |
| 2017–present | Big Mouth | Missy Foreman-Greenwald (2017–2020), other characters (voice)
|52 episodes | |
| 2018–2022 | Muppet Babies | Miss Nanny (voice) | |
| 2018 | Clarence | Pipi, Cookie Mama Cashier, Beatrice (voice) | |
| rowspan="3" | 2019 | The Simpsons | Piper Paisley (voice)
|Episode: "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"{{Cite magazine |last=Snierson |first=Dan |date=April 24, 2019 |title=First-look photos of Simpsons season 30 finale: 'Gwyneth Paltrow will not like this episode' |url=https://ew.com/tv/2019/04/24/the-simpsons-first-look-season-30-finale/ |access-date=September 24, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en}} | |
| The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience | Stacy
|Television special | ||
| Jenny Slate: Stage Fright | Herself
|Stand-up special | ||
| 2020 | Elena of Avalor | Cahu (voice)
|Episode: "Coronation Day" | |
| 2021–present | The Great North | Judy Tobin (voice) | |
| 2021 | Q-Force | (voice)
|Episode: "Rogue" | |
| 2022 | ''Zootopia+ Assistant mayor bellweather (voice)
| 2023 | Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake | Huntress (voice)
|Episode: "The Star" |
| 2024 | Jenny Slate: Seasoned Professional | Herself
|Stand-up special | |
| 2025 | Dying for Sex | Nikki | 8 episode miniseries{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=2024-01-17 |title=Jenny Slate Joins Michelle Williams In FX Series Dying For Sex |url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/jenny-slate-michelle-williams-dying-for-sex-fx-1235795295/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} |
=Music videos=
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! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Artist(s) ! scope="col" | Role |
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| scope="row" | 2009
| "Threw It On the Ground" | Girlfriend |
| scope="row" | 2019
| "Oakland Nights" | The Lonely Island (feat. Sia) | Stacy |
=Podcasts=
Awards and nominations
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |title=Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Things About Me |last1=Slate |first1=Jenny |last2=Fleischer-Camp |first2=Dean |publisher=Razorbill |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-59514-455-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/marcelshellwiths00slat }}
- {{Cite book |title=Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I've Ever Been |last1=Slate |first1=Jenny |last2=Fleischer-Camp |first2=Dean |publisher=Razorbill |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-59514-456-0}}
- {{Cite book |title=About the House |last1=Slate |first1=Jenny |last2=Slate |first2=Ron |publisher=Concord Free Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780990805922}}
- {{Cite book |title=Little Weirds |last=Slate |first=Jenny |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-316-48534-0 |publication-date=November 5, 2019}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/jenny-slate/little-weirds/9780316485340/ |title=Little Weirds by Jenny Slate |via=Little, Brown and Company |date=March 5, 2019 |isbn=9780316485340 |access-date=November 12, 2019|last1=Slate |first1=Jenny |publisher=Little, Brown }}
- {{Cite book |title=Lifeform |last=Slate |first=Jenny |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2024 |isbn=9780316263931 |publication-date=October 22, 2024}}
Notes
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References
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{{cite news |first=Gus |last=Wezerek |title=The 'S.N.L.' Stars Who Lasted, and the Ones Who Flamed Out |work=The New York Times |date=2019-12-14 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/14/arts/television/SNL-history.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2019-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214233933/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/14/arts/television/SNL-history.html |archive-date=2019-12-14 |url-status=live
|quote=Some of the names here will be familiar only to die-hard fans; others, like Murphy, defined what was funny for generations of viewers.}}
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External links
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