Creator / Noel Wells

Noel Kristi Wells (December 23, 1986) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, director, musician, and writer best known for Master of None and her short time on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Being something of a cutie, she tends to play them as well, either onscreen or in voice, though she completely subverted that expectation as Lord Dominator in Wander over Yonder.

Much like John Milhiser and Brooks Wheelan, Wells' time on SNL (during its 39th season) was woefully short-lived. Even though Wells is the show's first Mexican-American cast member (as well as it's first, and, so far, only North African cast member^note she has family heritage in Tunisia and the first cast member whose name has an accent on it^note Since her name is the actual French word for "Christmas" [even though she was born two days prior], Noel's name has the diaresis over the "e", meaning that the "o" and the "e" are pronounced separately. Compare with Melissa Villaseñor), she and the rest of the new cast (up until Sasheer Zamata was hired in the middle of season 39) were dismissed as being "too white" and a sign that SNL wasn't interested in hiring black female cast members^note never mind that they have had several in the show's long run, both before and after this claim was made, though the backlash did push SNL to at least keep black female cast members in mind when looking for new talent and expand its cast to include more of them and not just have one for every black male cast member they hire. Nonetheless, Noel Wells had slightly more screentime than Milhiser or Wheelan and did show signs that she had potential in staying on the show. Sadly, she, Wheelan, and Milhiser were let go after one season.

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Noel Wells' recurring characters were paltry (an unnamed child actress on the "Spotlightz! School for Child Acting" sketches and an unnamed student in Nasim Pedrad's "Shalon" sketches), but she managed to have more celebrity impressions than Milhiser and Wheelan: Kendall Jenner, Nancy Grace, Lena Dunham (both as herself and as her character on the HBO dramedy, Girls^note with Taran Killam as Adam Driver), Emma Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Britney Spears, Kristen Stewart, Alyson Hannigan, Reba McIntire, and Zooey Deschanel.

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Film Roles

• Dreamland as Joanna
• The Incredible Jessica James as Tasha
• Mr Roosevelt as Emily Martin (also writer and director)
• Happy Anniversary as Mollie
• Social Animals as Zoe

Television Roles

• The Aquabats! Super Show! as Rachel Moonbug (1 episode)
• Saturday Night Live as various (2013-2014)
• The Awesomes as Cait Walker/Knight Light (3 episodes)
• Comedy Bang! Bang! as Aiden Tomasseto (1 episode)
• Wander over Yonder as Lord Dominator
• Master of None as Rachel Silva
• American Dad! as DreamSmith Entertainment Announcer (1 episode)
• Elena of Avalor as Marimonda (1 episode)
• Craig of the Creek as Kelsey
• Star Trek: Lower Decks as Ensign D'Vana Tendi

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