Jenny Slate is an American actress, comedian and author, who is known as much for her superb acting as for her stand up comedies. Born into an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish family and raised in the suburbs of Boston, she became interested in comedy early in her life. Eventually she moved to New York City to study at the Columbia University, and began her career at the New York alternative comedy scene as a part of Gabe & Jenny duo soon after her graduation. Within four years, she launched her own solo show, concurrently debuting on television, attracting enough attention to merit a seat in the cast of Saturday Night Live for the 2009-2010 season. Although she was dropped the very next season for accidentally uttering the f-word while on air, she continued with her journey, appearing in both voice and performance roles in numerous films and television productions and writing scripts and books.
