Maya Rudolph (born July 27, 1972 in Gainesville, Florida) is a cast member in Saturday Night Live and the girl of the late soul singer Minnie Riperton.

Rudolph's characters on a indicate st& involved lawyer Glenda Goodwin and Megan from either the "Wake Up, Wakefield!" sketches, & she has performed impressions of Oprah Winfrey, Christina Aguilera, Condoleezza Rice, Paris Hilton, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Tyra Banks, and virtually all famously, designer Donatella Versace.

Additionally to her functiin on SNL, Maya hwhen appeared inside film likewise as in two or three tv program, including City of Angels and Chicago Hope. She experienced the little a share in the 2000 film Duets, for which she was also a music supervisor.

Rudolph was natural within Gainesville, Florida, the daughter of Riperton & songwriter/producer Richard Rudolph. She was in the studio sustaining her mother on the day Riperton recorded "Lovin' You"; a single may hear her mother sing "Maya, Maya, Maya" to her touching a prevent of the track. Growing higher biracial and losing her mother at the immature age got an outcome, based on data from a July 2001 ''Rosie magazine article: "My mom was black and my dad is Jewish, and I lost my mom when I was seven. That made me feel really different from other kids."

She attended highschool inside Santa Monica, California and continued her education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduated in 1995 with a BA within photography. She joined SNL fallowing the performance as a member of The Groundlings.

Before joining SNL'', she was briefly the keyboardist for the band The Rentals.

Around 2005, it was revealed that Rudolph was pregnant by her swain, filmmaker P.T. Anderson.