Andy Samberg Biography

Andrew David Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician and comedian.

He is a member of the comedy group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live (2005-2012), where he and his fellow group members have been credited with popularizing the SNL Digital Shorts. He occasionally goes by the stage name Young Sandwich.

Samberg has starred in several films, including Hot Rod (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), That's My Boy (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Hotel Transylvania (2012), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), and Storks (2016). He currently stars in the police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2014.

Early life

Samberg was born in Berkeley, California, as David A. J. Samberg, but changed his first name to Andy at age five. His mother, Marjorie "Margi" (ne Marrow), is an elementary school teacher, and his father, Joe, is a photographer. He has two sisters, Johanna and Darrow. He is Jewish, and has described himself as "not particularly religious." His maternal grandfather, industrial psychologist and philanthropist Alfred J. Marrow, served as the executive chair of the American Jewish Congress. Samberg is a third cousin of U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, as their maternal grandfathers were first cousins. Samberg discovered Saturday Night Live as a child, while sneaking past his parents to watch professional wrestling on television. He was obsessed with the show and his devotion to comedy was frustrating to teachers who felt he was distracted from his schoolwork. Samberg graduated from Berkeley High School in 1996, where he became interested in creative writing and has stated that "[writing classes] were the ones that I put all my effort into... that's what I cared about and that's what I ended up doing." He attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2000.

Career

Acting and filmmaking

Samberg majored in experimental film, including the music video for James Kochalka's song "Monkey vs. Robot" as Monkey. He became a YouTube and internet star and made his own comedy videos with his two friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. When YouTube was created in 2005, the streaming of their videos became much more widespread over the internet. Samberg became a featured player on SNL in part because of the work he had done on their sketch comedy website TheLonelyIsland.com, which helped them land an agent and eventually get hired at SNL. Prior to joining its cast, Samberg was (and remains) a member of the comedy troupe The Lonely Island (along with Taccone and Schaffer). The trio began writing for Saturday Night Live in 2005 and released their debut album, Incredibad in 2009. Samberg appeared in numerous theatrical films, commercials, music videos and hosted special events, including the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. In 2012, Samberg delivered the Class Day speech at Harvard University, and starred with Adam Sandler in That's My Boy and Hotel Transylvania (a role he reprised for Hotel Transylvania 2). In September 2012, Samberg played Cuckoo in the BAFTA nominated BBC Three series Cuckoo, and currently stars as Detective Jake Peralta in FOX's police sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine which first aired on September 17, 2013, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2014.

Samberg hosted the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20, 2015, during which in his opening monologue, he referred to U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump as possibly being racist, telling the studio and television audience "Well, I've gotta say, sure, Donald Trump seems racist. Let's see what else?" and U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as having an unkempt appearance: "Is it just me or does Bernie Sanders always seem like his flight is delayed? Guy"?s a mess!"

Samberg starred in Sleater-Kinney's "No Cities to Love" video along with other celebrities such as Fred Armisen, Ellen Page, and Norman Reedus. On May 16, 2016, Samberg and the Lonely Island performed their 2009 hit "I'm on a Boat" with classroom instruments on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Saturday Night Live

In September 2005, Samberg joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player along with his two friends as the show's writing staff. Though his live sketch roles were limited in his first year, he appeared in many prerecorded sketches including commercial parodies and various other filmed segments. On December 17, 2005, he and Chris Parnell starred in the Digital Short show "Lazy Sunday", a hip hop song performed by two Manhattanites on a quest to see the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The short quickly became an Internet phenomenon and garnered Samberg significant media and public attention, as did "Dick in a Box," a duet with Justin Timberlake that won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. His comedy troupe's collaboration with T-Pain, the "I'm on a Boat" music video had over 56 million views on YouTube, after debuting on February 7, 2009 and was nominated for a Grammy Award. Another digital short, "Motherlover" (also featuring Timberlake) was released on May 10, 2009 (to commemorate Mother's Day) and is a sequel of "Dick in a Box." Outside of his prerecorded segments, he also participated in recurring live segments, such as his Blizzard Man sketch. On June 1, 2012, Samberg's spokesperson announced that he had left the show. He returned to the show as the host on the Season 39 finale in 2014.

Personal life

Samberg has described himself as a "superfan" of musician Joanna Newsom, whom he first met at one of her concerts. After five years of dating, Samberg proposed to her in February 2013, and they married on September 21, 2013 in Big Sur, California, with Saturday Night Live co-star Seth Meyers serving as the wedding's groomsman. In March 2014, Samberg and Newsom purchased the estate Moorcrest in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles, California. They also own a home in the West Village of Manhattan, New York.

On August 8, 2017, it was announced Andy and his wife had recently welcomed a baby daughter, their first child.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Hot Rod	Rod Kimble
2008	Space Chimps	Ham III (voice)
2008	Extreme Movie		Co-writer
2009	I Love You, Man	Robbie Klaven
2009	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs	Brent McHale (voice)
2011	Friends with Benefits	Quincy
2011	What's Your Number?	Gerry Perry
2012	That's My Boy	Todd Peterson/Han Solo Berger
2012	The Watch	Casual Wanker #1	Cameo
2012	Celeste and Jesse Forever	Jesse Abrams
2012	Hotel Transylvania	Jonathan (voice)
2013	Grown Ups 2	Male Cheerleader	Cameo
2013	The To Do List	Van King
2013	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2	Brent McHale (voice)
2014	Neighbors	Toga #1	Cameo
2015	Hotel Transylvania 2	Jonathan (voice)
2016	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Conner	Also producer and writer
2016	Storks	Junior (voice)
2017	Take the 10	Johnny
2017	Brigsby Bear	Eric	Also producer
2017	Puppy!	Jonathan (voice)	Short film
2018	Hotel Transylvania 3	Jonathan (voice)	In production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003-2004	The 'Bu	Aaron	8 episodes; also writer
2005	Arrested Development	Stage Manager	Episode: "Righteous Brothers"
2005	House of Cosbys	Cosby Team TriOsby (voice)	2 episodes
2005-2012	Saturday Night Live	Various Characters	139 episodes; also writer
2008	Human Giant	Jonathan	4 episodes
2009, 2011	American Dad!	Ricky the Raptor / Anti-Christ (voices)	2 episodes
2010	Freaknik: The Musical	Chad (voice)	Television film
2010	The Sarah Silverman Program	Troy Bulletinboard	Episode: "Smellin' of Troy"
2010	Parks and Recreation	Carl Lorthner	Episode: "Park Safety"
2011, 2014	Adventure Time	Party Pat (voice)	2 episodes
2012	Portlandia	Andy	Episode: "Mixology"
2012	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell"
2012	SpongeBob SquarePants	Colonel Carper (voice)	Episode: "Hello Bikini Bottom!"
2012	Cuckoo	Dale "Cuckoo" Ashbrick	6 episodes
2012-2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Himself	5 episodes
2013	28th Independent Spirit Awards	Himself (host)	Television special
2013	The Awesomes	Kid Crab (voice)	Episode: "Pilot: Part 2"
2013	Comedy Central Roast of James Franco	Himself	Television special
2013-present	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Jake Peralta	Main role; also producer
2014	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Andy Samberg/St. Vincent"
2015	Major Lazer	Dr Nerd/Dr Bass Drop (voice)	2 episodes
2015	7 Days in Hell	Aaron Williams	Television film; also executive producer
2015	67th Primetime Emmy Awards	Himself (host)	Television special
2016	Party Over Here		Creator and executive producer
2016	Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe	Himself	Television special
2016	New Girl	Jake Peralta	Episode: "Homecoming"
2017	Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special	Kenny G	Variety special
2017	Master of None	Nicolas Cage (voice)	Episode: "New York, I Love You"
2017	Tour de Pharmacy	Marty Hass	Television film; also executive producer
2017	The Gong Show	Himself	(judge)

Awards and nominations

Year	Awards	Category	Recipient	Outcome
2007	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	Saturday Night Live
2009
	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
	Teen Choice Award	Web Star
	Teen Choice Award	Choice Comedian
2010	People's Choice Award	Favorite Web Celeb
2011	Teen Choice Award	Choice Comedian
	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
2012	Teen Choice Award	Choice Comedian
2014	People's Choice Award	Best Actor in a New TV Series	Brooklyn Nine-Nine
	Golden Globe Award	Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy
	American Comedy Awards	Best Comedy Actor - TV
	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor: Comedy
	EWwy Award	Best Actor, Comedy
2015	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor: Comedy
2016	People's Choice Award	Favorite Comedic TV Actor
	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor: Comedy
2017	People's Choice Award	Favorite Comedic TV Actor
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Comedy TV Actor