Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, as well as for playing Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provides several voices for BoJack Horseman, most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game, Anthem. Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary.
Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. She graduated from Northwestern University and then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".
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Primarily2025 Andy Kaufman Is Me as Self
2024 My Spy The Eternal City as Bobbi
2024 Thelma the Unicorn as Goat Girl (voice)
2022 The Bob's Burgers Movie as Louise Belcher (voice)
2022 My Butt Has a Fever as Louise Belcher (voice)
2021 Seal Team as Beth (voice)
2020 Bill & Ted Face the Music as Kelly
2020 My Spy as Bobbi
2019 Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer? as Trixie (voice)
2019 Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? as Trixie (voice)
2019 Toy Story 4 as Trixie (voice)
2019 It Started As a Joke as Self
2018 One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls as Self
2018 Boundaries as JoJo Jaconi
2017 Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special as Self
2017 Austin Found as Nancy
2017 Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie as Edith (voice)
2017 Literally, Right Before Aaron as Talula
2017 All Nighter as Roberta
2016 The Boss as Scout Leader Sandy
2016 Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie as Gloria
2015 The Comments as Kelly
2015 A Walk in the Woods as Mary Ellen
2015 Welcome to Bridgetown as Self
2014 Toy Story That Time Forgot as Trixie (voice)
2013 Toy Story of Terror! as Trixie (Voice)
2013 Gravity Falls: Six Strange Tales as Mabel Pines (voice) (archive footage)
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 as Barb (voice)
2013 Despicable Me 2 as Shannon (voice)
2013 RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013 as Herself
2013 Welcome to the Jungle as Brenda
2013 Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore as Herself Executive Producer
2012 Eugene Mirman: An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory as Herself
2012 Butter as Carol-Ann Stevenson
2012 Sleepwalk with Me as Cynthia
2012 Gravity Falls as Mabel Pines (voice)
2012 FOX 25th Anniversary Special as Louise Belcher (voice) (uncredited)
2011 The Muppets as Moderator
2011 Conan O'Brien Can't Stop as Self
2011 Hawaiian Vacation as Trixie (voice)
2011 Bob's Burgers as Louise Belcher (voice)
2011 Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film! as Herself
2010 Scared Shrekless as Sugar (voice)
2010 Going the Distance as Female Bartender
2010 Dinner for Schmucks as Susana
2010 Toy Story 3 as Trixie (voice)
2010 Get Him to the Greek as Today Show Production Assistant
2010 Shrek Forever After as Pumpkin Witch / Palace Witch (voice)
2010 Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge as Emily (voice)
2010 Valentine's Day as Ms. Gilroy
2010 When in Rome as Ilona (Waitress)
2010 Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole as Self (archive footage)
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant as Gertha Teeth
2009 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard as Stewardess Stacey
2009 Flight of the Conchords: On Air as Self
2008 The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2007 Delirious as Joelle
2007 Norbit as Event Organizer
2005 Adam & Steve as Ruth
2004 From Other Worlds as Information Librarian
2004 Poster Boy as Bookstore Lady
2001 Kate & Leopold as Miss Tree