PERSON: Chloe Fineman

Actor

Chloe Rose Fineman (born July 20, 1988) is an American actress and comedian. She became a featured player on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live starting in its 45th season in September 2019, and was promoted to repertory status in 2021 at the beginning of season 47.

Fineman’s parents are painter Ellen Gunn and biotechnology executive David Fineman. She has two sisters, visual artist Emma and CrossFit athlete Alexia (Leka). Her father is Jewish and her mother is a Protestant. Fineman was raised attending Camp Kee Tov, a Jewish day camp at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley.

She graduated from Piedmont High School in 2006. The school’s acting teacher described her as “equally brilliant with comedy and drama”. As a junior, Fineman directed Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; as a senior, she directed The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler; she also performed lead roles in The Visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley. Since her graduation, she has returned to the school to direct plays and lead workshops.

While in high school, Fineman impersonated a peafowl on the Late Show with David Letterman after winning a bird calling competition.

Fineman graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

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