#Andy samberg series#

When YouTube was created in 2005, the streaming of their videos became much more widespread. He became an online star and made his own comedy videos with his two friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. While at NYU, writer Murray Miller was his roommate. He attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to New York University (NYU)'s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2000. that's what cared about and that's what ended up doing'. Samberg graduated from Berkeley High School in 1996, where he became interested in creative writing and has stated that writing classes 'were the ones that put all effort into. Samberg is a third cousin of US Senator Tammy Baldwin, and his adoptive maternal grandfather was industrial psychologist and philanthropist Alfred J. In a 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Samberg discovered that his mother Marjorie, who was adopted by Jewish parents, is the biological daughter of a Sicilian (Italian) Catholic father named Salvatore Maida, who immigrated in 1925, and a German-Jewish refugee mother named Ellen Philipsborn, who had come to the US in 1938 they met in San Francisco. He attended Chabot Elementary School with his future Brooklyn Nine Nine co-star Chelsea Peretti. Samberg was raised in a Jewish family and considers himself 'not particularly religious.' He also has Italian heritage.

At age 5, he told his parents that he wanted to change his name to Andy. His mother, Marjorie 'Margi' ( née Marrow), is a retired teacher, who taught at John Muir Elementary School, and his father, Joe Samberg, is a photographer. Samberg was born in Berkeley, California on August 18, 1978.

#Andy samberg series#

For his work on the show, he was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2013. Samberg has had lead voice roles in Space Chimps (2008), the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs film series (2009–2013), the Hotel Transylvania film series (2012–2022), Storks (2016), and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022).įrom 2013 to 2021, he starred as Jake Peralta in the Fox, and later NBC, police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine which he also produced. Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Palm Springs (2020). He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2012, where he and his fellow group members are credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. Samberg August 18, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, musician, producer and writer. Anti-humor, musical comedy, improvisational comedy, physical comedy, sketch comedyĪndy Samberg (born David A.