Chelsea Peretti

Chelsea Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, television writer, singer, and songwriter.

She is best known for portraying Gina Linetti in the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

She wrote for various TV series, including Parks and Recreation, Saturday Night Live and Kroll Show.

Peretti was born on February 20, 1978, in Oakland, California, to Amanda Cherkin, a schoolteacher, and Gene Peretti, a criminal defense lawyer and painter.

Her father is of Italian and English descent, and her mother is Jewish.

Her step-mother was African-American.

She was raised in Oakland.

She has an older brother, internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post.

Chelsea Peretti attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland.

She moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Barnard College of Columbia University, during which time (in her junior year) she took a study year abroad to Royal Holloway, University of London.

She graduated in 2000.

She attended elementary school with her Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star Andy Samberg and junior high school with comedian Moshe Kasher.

Peretti has written for The Village Voice, Details, Playgirl, Jest, and American Theatre Magazine, as well as online publications including The Huffington Post.

After moving to Los Angeles, Peretti made appearances on programs such as Kroll Show, Louie, The Sarah Silverman Program, TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., and Tosh.0.

She appeared as a guest correspondent on one episode of Lopez Tonight, interviewing local citizens about Prop 8.

While in New York, Peretti made short films with Variety SHAC, a comedy troupe she formed in 2004 with Andrea Rosen, Heather Lawless, and Shonali Bhowmik.

In July 2010, Peretti made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list.

Peretti is credited as a story editor on the fourth season of Parks and Recreation from 2011 to 2012.

She has made several guest appearances on podcasts, including Doug Loves Movies, How Did This Get Made?, WTF with Marc Maron, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, The Todd Glass Show, The Lavender Hour, The Bone Zone with Brendon Walsh and Randy Liedtke, and Comedy Bang! Bang! In October 2012, Peretti launched her own call-in podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti.

From 2013 until 2019, Peretti was a series regular on NBC's detective/police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, playing Gina Linetti, until she announced her departure from the show in October 2018.

Her departure episode was "Four Movements."

Peretti began dating comedian and filmmaker Jordan Peele in 2013.

Paste ranked her Twitter account #75 on "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014."

They got engaged in November 2015.

On April 26, 2016, Peretti announced that she and Peele had eloped.

They have a son, who was born in 2017.

She returned later in the season in a guest appearance, in "Return of the King," which premiered May 2, 2019.

She also returned for the two part finale.

On April 21, 2020, Peretti released an EP titled Foam and Flotsam, a musical comedy concept album about coffee.

She created the music in collaboration with Kool Kojak, and the songs feature guests Reggie Watts, Terry Crews, and Juliette Lewis.

In tandem with the EP, Peretti also released two accompanying music videos: "Late" and "Oatmilk."

Her music style is described as "whimsical yet depressive...[slamming] you into a wall and then [sliding] you up that wall and [releasing] you into a new galaxy."