PERSON: Heidi Gardner

Comedian

Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Gardner has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since season 43 in 2017, when she debuted as a featured player. She was promoted to repertory status on the show in 2019.

Gardner was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up with an older brother, Justin.

Growing up, Gardner worked part-time at the Tivoli Theater, where she did everything “from selling tickets to making popcorn”. She later credited the theater as “setting the tone in her life”. Gardner was not interested in acting as a child, only performing on stage as a flutist for the school band and doing comedy sketches in school talent shows. Gardner graduated from the all-girls Catholic high school Notre Dame de Sion in 2001. In her senior year, her classmates voted her “most likely to be a cast member of Saturday Night Live”. Upon graduation, Gardner followed a friend’s footsteps and enrolled at the University of Kansas for two years before transferring to the University of Missouri for a semester. She became uninterested in school and often skipped classes, but discovered a fondness for haircutting.

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