Ayo Edebiri is a rising actor, comedy writer, and stand-up comedian, who has appeared in and worked in the writer's room on several TV and streaming shows, ranging from
Ayo and Rachel Are Single,
The Rundown with Robin Thede,
Sunnyside,
Big Mouth,
Dickinson, Netflix’s
Mulligan,
We Lost Our Human, and the acclaimed FX series,
The Bear (2022-2023), for which Edebiri received multiple awards nominations and an Independent Spirit Award win for best supporting performance in a new scripted series.
After Edibiri’s first big-screen role (uncredited) in director/writer/producer Cooper Raiff’s
Shithouse (2020), Edebiri had a supporting role in
Cicada (2020), the Outfest-premiering indie drama co-directed by Matthew Fifer (who also wrote, starred, and co-edited) and Kieran Mulcare, and released by Strand Releasing. Ayo Edibiri joined the sprawling cast of Daryl Wein’s and Zoe Lister-Jones’ apocalyptic comedy-drama,
How It Ends (2021), with Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Fred Armisen, Bradley Whitford,
Olivia Wilde, Helen Hunt, Colin Hanks, and
Charlie Day, and which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by United Artists Releasing.
Ayo Edebiri, between her film and TV work, had a very busy 2023, including a supporting role in the Sundance festival hit,
Theater Camp (2023), co-directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman (who also co-wrote and co-performed with Noah Galvin and Ben Platt), and released by Searchlight Pictures. Edebiri then co-starred in the teen sex comedy
Bottoms (2023), directed and co-written (with cast member
Rachel Sennott) by Emma Seligman and co-produced by
Elizabeth Banks, with Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Dagmara Dominczyk, and NFL star Marshawn Lynch, and was released by Orion Pictures/MGM after a South by Southwest festival premiere.
Edebiri co-starred in director-cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ indie drama,
The Sweet East (2023), written by Nick Pinkerton and with Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, and Jeremy O. Harris, which premiered in Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was released by Utopia. Ayo Edibiri next appeared in two major studio-backed voice performances in, first, Marvel Comics/Sony Pictures Animation’s acclaimed smash hit,
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023); and then in a co-starring role in the Nickelodeon/Paramount animated reboot,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), directed by Jeff Rowe and co-starring
Micah Abbey,
Shamon Brown Jr.,
Nicolas Cantu, Rose Byrne, and Jackie Chan.
Edebiri co-starred in writer-director Bernardo Britto’s time-travel drama,
Omni Loop (2024), with Rose Salazar, Mary-Louise Parker, and Maddison Bullock. Edebiri played the character of Envy in the voice ensemble of Disney/Pixar Animation Studios’ highly anticipated sequel,
Inside Out 2 (2024), with original cast members
Amy Poehler,
Phyllis Smith,
Lewis Black, Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan and new cast mates Maya Hawke, Tony Hale and Adele Exarchopoulos, under co-writer
Kelsey Mann’s direction, and grossing a robust $1.7 billion (against $200 million costs).
Edebiri starred in and was an executive producer of director/writer/co-producer
Mark Anthony Green’s feature debut,
Opus (2025), with John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Young Mazino, and Tatanka Means, released wide by A24 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Ayo Edebiri co-starred with
Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield in director/producer Luca Guadagnino’s drama,
After the Hunt (2025), with Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, made with lead producers MGM and Imagine Entertainment, and released by Amazon MGM Studios. Edebiri was then cast by director/writer/producer
James L. Brooks opposite Emma Mackey,
Woody Harrelson,
Kumail Nanjiani, Jack Lowden,
Rebecca Hall, Troy Garity,
Jamie Lee Curtis, and Albert Brooks in the comedy-drama,
Ella McCay (2025), produced by Brooks’s Gracie Films and released by 20
th Century Studios.
