Nasim Pedrad Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a LA Weekly Award for best comedic performance of the year
• Her show "Me, Myself and Iran" was selected for the 2007 HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas
• Graduated from the University of California - Los Angeles with a degree in Theater
• Performed with The Groundlings and the Upright Citizens Brigade before joining "Saturday Night Live․"
• Best known as a "Saturday Night Live" cast member
• In addition to her work on "Despicable Me 2," she has also done voice-overs for "The Awesomes" and "The Lorax․"
• Performed her one-woman show "Me, Myself and Iran" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles
• Created the original "Saturday Night Live" characters Bedelia and Lil Blaster and does impersonations of Arianna Huffington, Kim Kardashian, and Barbara Walters