Nasim Pedrad

Actress

Birthday November 18, 1981

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Tehran, Iran

Age 42 years old

Nationality Iran

Height 163 cm

#10373 Most Popular

1981

Nasim Pedrad (born November 18, 1981) is an American actress and comedian.

2003

Nasim graduated from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 2003.

She was a member of the UCLA Spring Sing Company.

Pedrad was a performer with the Sunday Company at The Groundlings.

She frequently performed her one-woman show Me, Myself & Iran at the Los Angeles divisions of ImprovOlympic and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

2006

In 2006, Pedrad made her first television appearance on an episode of Gilmore Girls as a waitress with two lines.

2007

The show was selected for the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas.

She received an LA Weekly Best Comedic Performance of the Year Award as the lead in the comedic spoof After School Special.

In 2007, she made a guest appearance on The Winner.

She had a recurring role on ER as Nurse Suri.

2009

Pedrad was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2014.

In 2009, she had a guest appearance on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Pedrad joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2009 as part of the 35th (2009–2010) season.

2011

Pedrad became a repertory player in the 2011–12 season after two years of being a featured player.

In 2011, she was a recurring voice on the Fox animated series Allen Gregory.

She appeared in a small role in the 2011 film No Strings Attached.

2012

In film, Pedrad had minor voice roles in the animated films The Lorax (2012), Despicable Me 2 (2013) and Aladdin (2019), and starring roles in the comedy films Cooties (2014) and Desperados (2020).

Pedrad was born in Tehran, Iran.

Although her father was able to emigrate to the United States, Pedrad and her mother had to stay in Germany, reuniting with her father when she was three years old.

Her younger sister, Nina, is a comedy writer.

In 2012, she had a supporting voice role in the animated feature film The Lorax and a small appearance in The Dictator.

2013

In 2013, Pedrad had another supporting voice role, in Despicable Me 2.

2014

She later went on to star in the Fox sitcoms Mulaney (2014–2015) and New Girl (2015–2018), the Fox horror comedy series Scream Queens (2015), and the TBS science fiction comedy series People of Earth (2017) and 2019 movie Aladdin.

Pedrad also created, produces, and stars in the TBS/The Roku Channel sitcom Chad (2021–present).

Pedrad left SNL in 2014 to work on Mulaney.

In the autumn of 2014, she left Saturday Night Live to star in a new Fox sitcom, Mulaney.

On October 18, 2014, Fox shut down production of the series by reducing the 16-episode order by three episodes.

Filming for the thirteenth episode had just been completed prior to the order reduction, and the fourteenth episode was about to enter production.

2015

From 2015 to 2018, Pedrad has a recurring guest role as LAPD officer Aly Nelson on the Fox sitcom New Girl.

She portrayed Gigi Caldwell in Season One of the Fox horror-comedy Scream Queens.

2016

In 2016, she appeared in a commercial for Old Navy alongside comedian Kumail Nanjiani and other SNL cast members Cecily Strong and Jay Pharoah.

2017

In 2017, she joined the cast of season 2 of the TBS comedy series People of Earth.

Later that same year, she also made guest appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

2020

In 2020, she starred as Wesley in the Netflix film Desperados.

In 2021, Pedrad starred in the TBS TV series Chad which she also created, wrote, and directed.