Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza is an actress and comic born on June 26th 1984. She stars as April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation. Her first web series was The Jeannie Tate Show after she appeared in improv, sketch and slapstick comedy in the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Plaza. In her later career she went on to star in Judd Apatow Funny People, Scott Pilgrim and The World. It is her birthday today. Aubrey Christina Plaza, daughter of Bernadette Plaza (an attorney) and David Plaza (a financial specialist) was born in Wilmington Delaware. Her mother is Irish and English, while her father is from Puerto Rico. Plaza is a graduate from the Catholic All-Girls School in 2002. In 2006. She graduated from Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. In her senior year of the high school she was president of the student council at her all-girls Catholic school as well as a participant in Wilmington Drama League performances. When she was at the end of her second year in college Plaza had a stroke that left her with expressive aphasia and a period of paralysis. She has now recovered. Plaza has done improv at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, New York City since 2004. The Laugh Factory as well The Improv are two places in N.Y.C. where Plaza performed standup comedy. Plaza has appeared on E.S.P.N.'s Mayne Street and The Jeannie Tate Show as Robin Gibney as well as the premiere season of Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz. Troopers was a humorous scifi show that aired on CollegeHumor where she played Princess. Plaza was the first saxophonist to debut in Cassorla's Bona Fide in 2014. She first appeared in Father John Misty's Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings' in the year 2012. HarmonQuest In 2016, HarmonQuest featured Plaza in the role of Hawaiian Coffee. That same year she portrayed Aaron Burr In Drunk History and Cat Adams in Season 11 of the C.B.S. show on television Criminal Minds. The actress made an impressive appearance as the character in the 12th season of Criminal Minds. Following that she was announced Plaza would be appearing in the comedy show An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn.