Chelsea Peretti Biography

Chelsea Vanessa Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for portraying Gina Linetti on the Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Paste ranked her Twitter account #75 on "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014".

Early life

Peretti was born in Contra Costa County, California, raised in Oakland, California, the daughter of a Christian father and Jewish mother. Her older brother is internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, who founded BuzzFeed and co-founded The Huffington Post.

Peretti attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland. She moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Barnard College and graduated in 2000. She attended elementary school with her Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star Andy Samberg and junior high school with comedian Moshe Kasher.

Career

Peretti has written for The Village Voice, Details, Playgirl, Jest, American Theatre Magazine, as well as online publications like The Huffington Post. While in New York she made short films with Variety SHAC, a comedy troupe she formed in 2004 along with Andrea Rosen, Heather Lawless, and Shonali Bhowmik.

After moving to Los Angeles, Peretti made appearances on programs such as Louie, The Sarah Silverman Program, TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., and Tosh.0. She appeared as a guest correspondent on one episode of Lopez Tonight interviewing local citizens about Prop 8.

In July 2010, Peretti made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list. Peretti is credited as a writer on six episodes of the television show Parks and Recreation from 2011 to 2012.

Peretti also appeared on the UK's Channel 4 show The Big Fat Quiz of Everything.

She has made several guest appearances on podcasts including Doug Loves Movies, How Did This Get Made?, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, The Todd Glass Show, The Lavender Hour, The Bone Zone with Brendon Walsh and Randy Liedtke, and Comedy Bang! Bang! In October 2012, Peretti launched her own call-in podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti.

Peretti guest-starred in the Comedy Central series Kroll Show as Farley, a love interest of Bobby Bottleservice.

Since 2013 Peretti has been a series regular on Fox's detective/police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, playing Gina Linetti.

Personal life

Peretti dated Jim Norton.

Peretti began dating actor Jordan Peele in March 2013. They became engaged in November 2015. On April 26, 2016, Peretti announced on Instagram that she and Peele had "eloped".

On February 5, 2017, Peretti announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with her first child. Her pregnancy was written into a Season 4 episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine ("The Bank Job").

On July 17, 2017, it was announced that Peretti gave birth to her first child, Beaumont Gino Peele, on July 1.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
2007	Twisted Fortune	Rachel
2011	Guy Talk	Girl
2014	Women Aren't Funny	Herself
2016	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Brunette CMZ Reporter

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Comedy Lab	Eugene's Friend	1 episode
2008-2013	The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest	Herself	88 episodes
2009	Bobby Bottleservice		Writer 1 episode
2010	Louie	Date	1 episode
2010	The Sarah Silverman Program	Becky	Writer 1 episode
2010	WTF with Marc Maron		Writer 1 episode
2011	Comedy Central Presents	Herself	Writer 1 episode
2011-2012	Parks and Recreation	Zelda	1 episode Writer (6 episodes)
2011-2013	China, IL	Crystal Peppers Kim Buckett	Voice 14 episodes
2011-2013	Funny as Hell		Writer 2 episodes
2012	The Couple	Gigi	2 episodes
2013	The Greatest Event in Television History	Jackie Rush	1 episode
2013	High School USA!	Superintendent Andrea Kunssler	Voice 1 episode
2013	Saturday Night Live		Writer 2 episodes
2013-2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Delivery Woman/Trey Booth	2 episodes
2013-2015	Kroll Show	Herself Various Characters	9 episodes Writer (7 episodes) Producer (8 episodes)
2013-present	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Gina Linetti	Main cast, 90 episodes
2014	Key & Peele	Art Show Presenter	1 episode
2015	Gravity Falls	Darlene	Voice 1 episode
2015	Drunk History	Ann Druyan	1 episode
2015-2016	The Big Fat Quiz of Everything	Herself	2 episodes
2016	Animals.	Angela	Voice 1 episode
2016	New Girl	Gina Linetti	Episode: "Homecoming"
2016	Future-Worm!	Ennuisha / Mean Little Girl	Voice 1 episode
2016	Rupaul's Drag Race	Herself	1 episode Ruvenge of the Queens (All Stars 2)
2017	Girls	Chelsea	Episode: "All I Ever Wanted"

Web

Year	Title	Credit	Role	Notes
2009	Chelsea Peretti's All My Exes	Creator	Herself	6 episodes
2014	Chelsea Peretti: One of the Greats	Writer, executive producer	Herself	Netflix special

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	Lori Williams-Jones	Voice