Chelsea Peretti

Chelsea Peretti was born as Chelsea Vanessa Peretti on February 20, 1978, in Contra Costa County, California, United States. She has a brother, Jonah Peretti who is the founder of BuzzFeed and co-founder of The Huffington Post. Peretti attended The College Preparatory School. Later on, she studied at Barnard College and graduated from there in 2000.

The actress started a relationship with actor Jordan Peele in 2013. The couple got engaged in 2015 and got married a year later. Peretti gave birth to Peele’s child, a son named Beaumont Gino Peele on July 1, 2017.

In the beginning of her career, Chelsea Peretti created short films with the comedy troupe Variety SHAC while in New York. She then moved to Los Angeles and appeared in the flick ‘Twisted Fortune’ in 2007. After this, she began starring in the show ‘The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest’. In 2010, the actress guest-starred in an episode of ‘Louie’. That year, she also wrote the TV movie ‘WTF with Marc Maron’.

The following year, Peretti wrote two episodes of ‘Parks and Recreation’ and ‘Funny as Hell’ respectively. She also began voicing the character of Crystal Peppers / Kim Buckett for the series ‘China, IL’ in the year 2011. Then in 2013, the American beauty was cast as Gina Linetti in the TV program ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’. The same year, she also guest-starred in the programs ‘The Greatest Event in Television History’ and ‘Comedy Bang! Bang’.

Peretti wrote two episodes of ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2013. She also wrote, produced and starred in ‘Kroll Show’ the same year. After this, she got featured in a number of TV shows including ‘Key & Peele’, ‘Drunk History’, ‘The Big Fat Quiz of Everything’, ‘New Girl’, ‘RuPaul's Drag Race’ and ‘HarmonQuest’. Around this time, Peretti also acted in the flick ‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’. In 2017, she played Chelsea in an episode of ‘Girls’. That year, she also voiced Monica in the series ‘Big Mouth’.