Cecily Strong

Strong debuted as a featured player on Saturday Night Live on September 15, 2012.[11][15][16] The next season, Strong became a repertory player and co-anchored the recurring Weekend Update segment with Seth Meyers, beginning with the season 39 premiere. Strong later co-anchored with Colin Jost,[17] and was replaced on Weekend Update with writer Michael Che, beginning with the season 40 premiere in September 2014, partly at her own request to focus on doing sketches as a part of the regular cast.[18] In 2020, Strong was nominated for her first Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series for her work on the show.[19]

• ”The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party", an unintelligent, unnamed pseudo-activist[20]
• Dana, a loud-mouthed, unfriendly retail employee who always insults her coworkers out of fear of being fired
• Heather, the One-Dimensional Female Character from a Male-Driven Comedy
• Kyra from "The Girlfriends Talk Show"
• Cathy Anne, the drug-addicted neighbor of Michael Che (usually introduced by Che as "the woman who's always yelling outside my window"), who has strong opinions on current events
• an unnamed blond former porn star-turned-model/commercial actress who hawks elegant items alongside Vanessa Bayer;
• Gemma, a British woman with various boyfriends
• Gracelynn Chisholm, one half of a married duo that hosts a talk show

Strong was the featured entertainer at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association dinner (cracking that she was the first straight woman to do so in twenty years).[21] She took digs at the various news organizations in attendance, politicians of all persuasions, and President Obama. She also took shots at the US Secret Service, host location the Washington Hilton, Brian Williams, Sarah Koenig and the state of Indiana.[22]

In 2016, she appeared in a commercial for Old Navy,[23] alongside other SNL cast members Nasim Pedrad and Jay Pharoah. That year, Strong also joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as a celebrity correspondent.[24] In 2016, she guest starred as Samantha Stevens in TBS's Angie Tribeca and Catherine Hobart in Fox's Scream Queens. She has appeared in a series of commercials for Triscuit since 2017.

In January 2020, it was announced that Strong would be leading Schmigadoon!,[25] her own series on the streaming platform Apple TV + which is to be produced by Lorne Michaels.[26] The series will center around a couple (played by Strong and Keegan-Michael Key) stuck in a 1940s studio musical town until they find "true love". Rounding out the cast are Alan Cumming, Fred Armisen, Kristen Chenoweth, and Aaron Tveit.[27]