Ana Gasteyer
Ana Gasteyer
Ana Kristina Gasteyeris an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best known from her television roles such as being a cast member on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002, and her sitcom roles ABC's Suburgatory and on Netflix's Lady Dynamite...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 May 1967
CountryUnited States of America
stars fun blue
It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles...
fashion way cameras
I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.
done way dramatic
I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.
spontaneous impression
I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.
years play way
I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.
play tvs
I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.
lonely new-york subway
I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
cities
I've always lived in a city.
mean laughing people
I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.
actresses sorority snl
It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.
stress taken kids
It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.
character preparation way
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
fun character suits-you
I actually like character work, so for me, generally speaking, I enjoy it. It's a little bit more of a comfortable suit you put back on. You can explore it and have fun with it and push the limits of it.
thinking shields faces
I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.