Cast & creator

Cecily Strong

1984-02-08 (age 42) Springfield, Illinois, USAIMDb

Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Simpsons

Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) is an American actress and comedian who was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022. She was born in Springfield, Illinois, and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, an inner-ring suburb of Chicago. She is the daughter of Penelope and William "Bill" Strong, who worked as an Associated Press bureau chief and is now managing partner at a Chicago public relations firm. Strong's parents are divorced. Strong grew up adoring SNL as a child, reenacting sketches with her friend and watching old SNL commercials on VHS. "I had a tape of the best commercials, and I wore it out every day." She has stated that Phil Hartman inspired her. She attended Oak Park and River Forest High School before transferring for her senior year to the Chicago Academy for the Arts, where she graduated in 2002. She then studied acting at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), graduating in 2006 with a BFA in theatre. After graduating from CalArts, Strong returned to Chicago, where she studied at the Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecily Strong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as: سیسیلی استرانگ

Movies

film credits

Series

television credits

Career

1975–2025 · acting roles

Credit score

6.5

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 5.0

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest · 2009

★ 5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · 2014

★ 8.0

The Simpsons

Megan Matheston (voice) · 1989

★ 5.1

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · 2014

★ 5.1

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self - Guest · 2014

Across film & television

Filmography (42)

Showing 42 of 42 credits

Cecily Strong