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Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) 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". This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
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Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) 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". This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Known For
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Simpsons
Celebrity Family Feud
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
American Dad!
30 Rock
BoJack Horseman
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
After Midnight
Ugly Betty
Glee
Conviction
Big Mouth
Mad Men
The Soup
Adventure Time
Wilfred
Archer
Hollywood Squares
Future Man
The Muppets Mayhem
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
The Penguins of Madagascar
Teenage Euthanasia
Dicktown
Our Flag Means Death
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Bubble Guppies
The Jeselnik Offensive
Modern Family
How I Met Your Mother
@midnight with Chris Hardwick
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Live at Gotham
Ask the Storybots
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio
Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik
Not Safe with Nikki Glaser
Transformers: Rescue Bots
Get Him to the Greek
Valentine's Day
Despicable Me 4
Going the Distance
Norbit
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
The Muppets
Toy Story 3
When in Rome
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Toy Story 4
Shrek Forever After
Hawaiian Vacation
Despicable Me 2
Dinner for Schmucks
Thelma the Unicorn
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Toy Story of Terror!
Freak Show
The Boss
The Hotwives of Orlando
What We Do in the Shadows
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
My Spy
Welcome to the Jungle
Comedy Lab
One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls
Bob's Burgers
Flight of the Conchords
My Spy The Eternal City
The Heart, She Holler
Bill & Ted Face the Music
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge
Gravity Falls
The Last Man on Earth
Gravity Falls: Weirdmageddon
Austin Found
Gravity Falls: Six Strange Tales
Gravity Falls: Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls
Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore
Soul Quest Overdrive
Toy Story That Time Forgot
Production Credits
Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore
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