Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza is, to my eye, one of the smartest comic actors of her generation because she weaponizes discomfort. The deadpan she perfected as April Ludgate could have trapped her, but she kept bending it into menace, melancholy, even glamour, until critics had to take her seriously as a dramatic force. Her path tells the story: a Wilmington kid who went through NYU Tisch and the improv trenches at Upright Citizens Brigade, then spent a decade choosing odd projects over safe ones. Calling her social media handle evilhag shows she is in on her own myth, which I find genuinely charming. The Time 100 nod in 2023 simply made official what comedy fans already knew.

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Name (English)

Aubrey Plaza

Name (Japanese)

オーブリー・プラザ

Reading

おーぶりー・ぷらざ

Born

June 26, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Occupation

actor / comedian / television actor / film actor / audiobook narrator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Time 100

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/plazadeaubrey/
• Xhttps://x.com/evilhag
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20Plaza
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210547

Tags

• Delaware
• actor
• comedian
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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