History Creator / MayaRudolph

* ''Film/{{Disenchanted|2022}}'' as Malvina Monroe

Maya Rudolph's big break came in 2000, when she joined ''Saturday Night Live'', becoming the first half-black, half-white cast member, the fourth black female cast member (after Creator/YvonneHudson from season six, Creator/DanitraVance from season eleven, and Ellen Cleghorne from season 17), and the first black female cast member to actually be popular (Hudson was a background player who faded to obscurity, Vance was a decent performer but was often relegated to stereotypical roles, and Ellen Cleghorne did attain some popularity on ''SNL'', but she was overshadowed by the male cast members[[note]]and some of the white female cast members, like Melanie Hutsell and Julia Sweeney[[/note]] and has not done anything of note after her tenure on the show). From 2000 to 2007, she did many celebrity impressions (most famously Donatella "[[GetOut GETHOOOOOOOOOOUT]]" Versace), played original characters, and even sang. Her AmbiguouslyBrown appearance and vocal talents made her a chameleon, as she played real and fictional characters of every race and ethnicity -- and sometimes, she even played men (such as Creator/ScottJoplin and Creator/LorneMichaels). She even won an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for her portrayal of UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris during the Democratic primaries for the 2020 election, which she would continue doing on an official recurring basis after the eventual nominee, UsefulNotes/JoeBiden, selected her as his running mate.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her father was a white Ashkenazi Jew and her mother was African-American, so many of her characters are of ambiguous race. Referenced in ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' when her character goes to Earth for the first time and is quite surprised to find that "Apparently I'm black."

* PlaysGreatEthnics: One reason she was so versatile on SNL was that her AmbiguouslyBrown looks let her play any ethnicity. Just look at that list of impressions.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Baymax}} (2022) as Aunt Cass

* ''Series/Loot'' (2022) as Molly

Maya Rudolph's big break came in 2000, when she joined ''Saturday Night Live'', becoming the first half-black, half-white cast member, the fourth black female cast member (after Creator/YvonneHudson from season six, Creator/DanitraVance from season eleven, and Ellen Cleghorne from season 17), and the first black female cast member to actually be popular (Hudson was a background player who faded to obscurity, Vance was a decent performer but was often relegated to stereotypical roles, and Ellen Cleghorne did attain some popularity on ''SNL'', but she was overshadowed by the male cast members[[note]]and some of the white female cast members, like Melanie Hutsell and Julia Sweeney[[/note]] and has not done anything of note after her tenure on the show). From 2000 to 2007, she did many celebrity impressions (most famously Donatella "[[GetOut GETHOOOOOOOOOOUT]]" Versace), played original characters, and even sang. Her AmbiguouslyBrown appearance and vocal talents made her a chameleon, as she played real and fictional characters of every race and ethnicity -- and sometimes, she even played men (such as Creator/ScottJoplin and Creator/LorneMichaels). She even won an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for her portrayal of UsefulNotes/KamalaHarris during the Democratic primaries for the 2020 election, which she would continue doing on an official recurring basis after the eventual nominee, UsefulNotes/JoeBiden (who went from being frequently played by Creator/JasonSudeikis to being semi-frequently played by Creator/WoodyHarrelson to [[TakeAThirdOption being played by]] Creator/JimCarrey to [[OverlyLongGag being played by]] Alex Moffat [[note]]There are two other ''SNL'' alumni who have played Joe Biden: Creator/KevinNealon back in the early 1990s and former writer Creator/JohnMulaney, but those were [[OneSceneWonder one-sketch wonders]][[/note]]), selected her as his running mate.