Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. As a teenager, she began acting in local theatre productions and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Plaza made her feature film debut in Mystery Team (2009). She gained wide recognition for her role as April Ludgate on the NBC political satire sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015).
In film, Plaza had a supporting role in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and a leading role in Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). From 2017 to 2019, Plaza portrayed the Shadow King and Lenny Busker in the critically praised FX superhero series Legion and produced and starred in the 2017 black comedy films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West. She also starred in the romantic comedy Happiest Season and thriller Black Bear (both 2020) and produced and played the title character in the crime film Emily the Criminal (2022).
Plaza received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for her role as a strait-laced lawyer in the second season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus (2022). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. In 2024, she starred as Rio Vidal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along.
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Primarily2026 Animal Friends
2025 Honey Don't! as MG Falcone
2025 Teen Hag Writer
2025 The Accompanist as Sarah Producer
2025 Hope
2025 The Ark and the Aardvark as Brain (voice)
2025 Liarmouth
2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
2024 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along as Self - Rio Vidal
2024 Megalopolis as Wow Platinum
2024 Agatha All Along as Rio Vidal
2024 My Old Ass as Older Elliott
2024 Decades of Confusion
2023 Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre as Sarah Fidel
2022 Spin Me Round as Kat
2022 Emily the Criminal as Emily Producer
2022 King Knight as Pine Cone (voice)
2022 Afghanistan Mon Amour (Enquelab Ultramarine) as The Jinn
2021 Best Sellers as Lucy Stanbridge
2020 Black Bear as Allison Producer
2020 Happiest Season as Riley Johnson
2020 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine as Ashley
2020 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis as Self - Julie Powers
2020 A Parks and Recreation Special as April Ludgate
2020 The Paley Center Salutes Parks and Recreation as April Ludgate
2019 Child's Play as Karen Barclay
2019 The Cold Open as Aubrey Plaza Producer
2018 An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn as Lulu Danger
2017 Take My Nose... Please! as Herself
2017 Ingrid Goes West as Ingrid Thorburn Producer
2017 The Little Hours as Sister Fernanda Producer
2016 Joshy as Jen
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Tatiana
2016 The Pistol Shrimps as Self
2016 Dirty Grandpa as Lenore
2016 Nightmare Time Writer, Executive Producer
2015 Addicted to Fresno as Kelly
2015 Crash Test: With Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer as Self
2015 The Driftless Area as Jean
2015 Ned Rifle as Susan Weber
2014 Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever as Grumpy Cat / Aubrey Plaza
2014 Playing It Cool as Mallory
2014 Life After Beth as Beth Slocum
2014 About Alex as Sarah
2013 Center Jenny as Monika Nark
2013 The To Do List as Brandy Klark
2013 Monsters University as Greek Council President (voice)
2013 Failure as Woman
2013 She Said, She Said as Woman in Park
2013 The End of Love as Aubrey
2013 Charlie Countryman as Ashley
2013 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III as Marnie
2013 Aubrey Plaza Hates Her Aunt Debra as Aubrey Plaza
2013 Rolling with Dad as Cassie Stickle
2012 10 Years as Olivia
2012 It's Getting Late as Rose
2012 Safety Not Guaranteed as Darius Britt
2012 Damsels in Distress as Depressed Debbie
2012 Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You as Jeanine Breemer
2012 All Star Bowling Trick Shots as Aubrey Plaza
2011 Home for Actresses as Aubrey
2010 The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' as Self
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as Julie Powers
2010 Breakup in a Noisy Diner as Girl
2010 Pete Carroll's Trip to Seattle Delayed as Aubrey Plaza
2009 Mystery Team as Kelly Peters
2009 Funny People as Daisy Danby
2009 Parks and Recreation as April Ludgate
2008 Daddy's Little Judge as Chelsi Writer
2006 In Love as Julie
2006 F***ed Director, Editor, Producer
2006 Killswitch
2005 Four Eyed Monsters as Girl on subway