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Poehler and Arnett announced their separation in September 2012; and Arnett filed for divorce in April 2014. She is an active feminist. Poehler and Arnett have two sons: Archie Arnett, born October 25, 2008 and Abel Arnett, born August 6, 2010. Poehler lives with her children in Los Angeles.
Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent.
- Actress, Producer, Writer
- September 16, 1971
Amy was married to Canadian actor and comedian Will Arnett from 2003 to 2016. The couple have two children. More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
- January 1, 1
- 1.57 m
- Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
Amy Poehler in Saturday Night Live (1975)- Amy Poehler and John Slattery in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
- Amy Poehler, Jenna Bush Hager, Hoda Kotb, and Hadley Robinson in Today (1952)
- Magic Johnson, Conan O'Brien, Larry Bird, and Amy Poehler in The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009)
- Amy Poehler and Chris Pratt in Parks and Recreation (2009)
- Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, and Betty White in Saturday Night Live (1975)
- She Worked at An Ice Cream Parlor
- She Shed Her Thick Accent
- She Owns A Wine Store
- She Started A 'Parks and Recreation' Dinner Party Tradition
- She Almost Wasn’T Cast in 'Mean Girls'
- She Shaped Kevin G.’s 'Mean Girls' Rap
- She Likes to Write Topless
- Her Brother Is Also A Comedian
- She Co-Founded An Improv Theater
- Her Improv Teams Have Had Some Interesting Names
The summer before she began studying at Boston College in 1989, Poehler worked part-time at an ice cream parlor called Chadwick’s, where she “wore old-timey outfits” and frequently had to sing “Happy Birthday” to customers — complete with drums, kazoos, cowbells and noisemakers. She ultimately fell in love with that performance element of her summe...
Born and raised in the Boston suburbs, Poehler admitted to The Hollywood Reporterin 2019 that she had to work hard to shed her New England accent. “I found out I had an accent when I went to [Boston College], which is not full of people from Boston," she said. "Every once in a while, it still comes out when I'm yelling or fighting."
Along with longtime friends and musicians Amy Miles and Mike Robertson, Poehler opened Zula Wines & Spirits in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood in 2018. At the time, she explained to Eater that the store had high-end brands, along with a “big” collection of wines under $13 for those looking for a “very good bottle” that won’t “break a bank.” Alth...
Parks and Recreation creator Mike Schur described a tradition Poehler started on the TV comedy’s set — any time the show shot on location, the whole cast and crew would have dinner together, he said, and Poehler would start by dedicating a toast to someone, and the toasting would go on and on until everyone had also been toasted themselves. "She'd ...
Paramount was wary of casting Poehler as Regina George’s mother because they’d “been burned on some Saturday Night Live movies” and didn’t want the 2004 comedy to “feel like an SNL movie,” according to Mean Girls director Mark Waters. Screenwriter and star Tina Fey initially recommended her longtime friend, who had to fly in for half days to filmMe...
Waters also told Vulturein 2014 that Fey let Poehler take charge of Kevin Gnapoor’s racy school talent show rap in the 2004 movie. “She’ll actually give credit to Amy for this, because Amy is more of the rap person,” Waters revealed. “Amy definitely coached him on how to do the rap, and she actually gave him some of the moves and choreography for i...
Poehler revealed in her 2014 book, Yes Please, that she prefers to do her writing topless, later elaborating to Ellen DeGeneres that it “relaxes” her. "I think it was probably accidental, like I was out of the shower and I was like, 'I have to finish this thing’ “And then I was like, 'This feels really good,’” she toldthe daytime talk show host. "A...
After beginning a career as a real estate lawyer, younger brother Greg Poehler switched gears and pursued his Hollywood dreams. Now a comedian, producer and actor, he moved to Sweden in 2006, before teaming with his sister for the short-lived 2014 sitcom, Welcome to Sweden. Greg, who also made a cameo as an emergency room doctor in his sister's 201...
Poehler co-founded New York City and Los Angeles' Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) improv theaters which was featured in a sketch comedy TV series of the same name for three seasons beginning in 1998. Poehler recently admitted to The New York Timesthat she’s unsure of UCB’s future, especially given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. "I don't know. It's b...
In their early twenties, Poehler and Fey competed in Chicago’s ImprovOlympics as part of a group called Inside Vladimir. As Fey explained on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2004, the troupe was named after “a gay porn movie that was for rent at the mini-mart near we used to live.” Poehler was also part of a Boston college troupe called My Mother’...
Jul 24, 2023 · Jul 24, 2023 Scroll. Amy Poehler and Will Arnett were one of Hollywood’s favorite couples. They were often referred to as a comedy power couple, given the fact they’re both insanely funny and...
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Aug 2, 2016 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has finalized Amy Poehler and Will Arnett’s divorce nearly four years after the comedians separated. Court records show the divorce was finalized on Friday. The judgment does not include many details about their settlement, but states that neither actor will receive spousal support.
Apr 2, 2014 · Poehler and comedian Will Arnett married in 2003. The couple worked together in the series Arrested Development, playing a couple that accidentally gets married, and again in the 2007 film...
