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Kristen Schaal
1 FOLLOWER • 85 CREDITS • JAN 24, 1978 • 46
Biography
Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/;) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, as well as for playing Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provides several voices for BoJack Horseman, most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which 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. Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary.
Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. She graduated from Northwestern University and 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".
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Known For
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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American Dad!
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The Simpsons
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Celebrity Family Feud
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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30 Rock
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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After Midnight
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Ugly Betty
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Glee
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Big Mouth
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Mad Men
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The Soup
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Adventure Time
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BoJack Horseman
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Wilfred
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Archer
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The Muppets Mayhem
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Future Man
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Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
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Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
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The Penguins of Madagascar
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Teenage Euthanasia
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Dicktown
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Our Flag Means Death
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Bubble Guppies
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The Jeselnik Offensive
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Modern Family
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How I Met Your Mother
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@midnight with Chris Hardwick
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Xavier: Renegade Angel
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Live at Gotham
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Ask the Storybots
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Conviction
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Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio
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Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
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Not Safe with Nikki Glaser
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Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik
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Transformers: Rescue Bots
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Soul Quest Overdrive
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Get Him to the Greek
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Valentine's Day
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Going the Distance
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Despicable Me 4
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Norbit
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
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The Muppets
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Toy Story 3
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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Toy Story 4
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When in Rome
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Shrek Forever After
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Hawaiian Vacation
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Despicable Me 2
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Dinner for Schmucks
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Thelma the Unicorn
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Toy Story of Terror!
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
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Freak Show
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The Boss
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The Hotwives of Orlando
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
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What We Do in the Shadows
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My Spy
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Welcome to the Jungle
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Comedy Lab
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls
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Flight of the Conchords
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The Heart, She Holler
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Forky Asks a Question
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Bob's Burgers
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
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My Spy: The Eternal City
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The Last Man on Earth
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Gravity Falls: Six Strange Tales
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
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Austin Found
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Gravity Falls
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The Bob's Burgers Movie
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
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Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore
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