Ayo Edebiri

Ayo Edebiri

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
Birthdayoct. 3, 1995
BiographyAyo Edebiri ( EYE-oh ə-DEB-ər-ee; born Funmilayo Edebiri, October 3, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, television writer, and director. Since 2022, she has played chef Sydney Adamu in the comedy-drama series The Bear, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, two Actor Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award for directing the episode "Napkins".

As a film actress, she starred in the comedy films Theater Camp and Bottoms (both 2023). In 2025, she followed with the psychological-thrillers Opus and After the Hunt, and the political comedy Ella McCay. She has also voiced roles such as Glory Grant in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), and Envy in Inside Out 2 (2024).

On television, she had recurring roles in the Apple TV+ period romance series Dickinson (2021), and the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary (2023). Edebiri was a writer and voice actor on the Netflix animated adult comedy series Big Mouth from 2020 to 2025 and was a writer for the FX horror comedy series What We Do in the Shadows in 2022.

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