Cecily Strong

Cecily Legler Strong born February 8 1984 is an American actress and comedian who was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022 She was born in Springfield Illinois and raised in Oak Park Illinois an innerring suburb of Chicago She is the daughter of Penelope and William Bill Strong who worked as an Associated Press bureau chief and is now managing partner at a Chicago public relations firm Strongs parents are divorced Strong grew up adoring SNL as a child reenacting sketches with her friend and watching old SNL commercials on VHS I had a tape of the best commercials and I wore it out every day She has stated that Phil Hartman inspired her She attended Oak Park and River Forest High School before transferring for her senior year to the Chicago Academy for the Arts where she graduated in 2002 She then studied acting at California Institute of the Arts CalArts graduating in 2006 with a BFA in theatre After graduating from CalArts Strong returned to Chicago where she studied at the Second City Conservatory and iO Chicago Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecily Strong licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia