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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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How I Met Your Mother
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Modern Family
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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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Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
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Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio
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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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Despicable Me 4
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Going the Distance
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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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Toy Story 4
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When in Rome
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
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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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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
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Toy Story of Terror!
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Freak Show
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The Boss
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Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
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The Hotwives of Orlando
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What We Do in the Shadows
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Welcome to the Jungle
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My Spy
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One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls
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Comedy Lab
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The Heart, She Holler
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Flight of the Conchords
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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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 Mysterious Benedict Society
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Gravity Falls
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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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Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge
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The Last Man on Earth
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The Bob's Burgers Movie
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
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Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore
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