Cecily strong

  Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8th, 1984) is an American actor, comedian as well as a producer and singer. Strong is best known because she was an Saturday Night Live cast member between 2012 until 2022. Strong is also the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history. Strong was performing Improv at The Second City, Chicago after she completed her studies at CalArts. Then, she was recruited by SNL. She is currently the host of the Apple TV+ musical comedy program Schmigadoon! She is also co-producing the show (2021-2024).



 



 Other roles she's had including voice acting in The Awesomes (2013-2015), and supporting roles in movies such as Ghostbusters, The Meddler and The Female Brain. In 2015, she hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Her first book, the memoir This will all be Over Soon, was published in 2021.



 



 For her work in Saturday Night Live, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the Comedy Series at the 72nd and 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.



 



 Childhood and early life



 Strong was born in Springfield, Illinois, and was raised in Oak Park, an inner suburban area within the ring of Chicago. She is the daughter of Penelope and William Strong. Strong was a chief of the Associated Press bureau and also ran his own PR firm until 2013. Penny Legler Strong is a nurse practitioner and has worked at numerous hospitals in the region. Strong's parents are divorced. Strong was fascinated by SNL from a young age. She loved reenacting sketches with a friend as well as watching the old SNL commercials via VHS. "I had a tape containing the best commercials that i would watch every day. She said that Phil Hartman was the person who inspired her.

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