Kristen Schaal

Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, as well as for playing Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provides several voices for BoJack Horseman, most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game, Anthem. Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary.

Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. She graduated from Northwestern University and then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of".

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Filmography (142 Appearances)

Toy Story 5

Upcoming (2026)

Andy Kaufman Is Me

2025

Hollywood Squares

2025

St. Denis Medical

2024

My Spy The Eternal City

2024

Thelma the Unicorn

2024

After Midnight

2024

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2023

The Muppets Mayhem

2023

Chibiverse

2022

The Bob's Burgers Movie

2022

My Butt Has a Fever

2022

Our Flag Means Death

2022

And Just Like That…

2021

Seal Team

2021

Teenage Euthanasia

2021

The Mysterious Benedict Society

2021

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

2021

Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun

2020

Bill & Ted Face the Music

2020

Dicktown

2020

My Spy

2020

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?

2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?

2019

Broken Karaoke

2019

Bless the Harts

2019

Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik

2019

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

2019

Toy Story 4

2019

What We Do in the Shadows

2019

It Started As a Joke

2019

UnMade

2019

One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls

2018

Boundaries

2018

Squinters

2018

Future Man

2017

Big Mouth

2017

Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special

2017

Austin Found

2017

The Gong Show

2017

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

2017

Literally, Right Before Aaron

2017

All Nighter

2017

Ask the Storybots

2016

Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio

2016

To Tell the Truth

2016

The Boss

2016

Great Minds with Dan Harmon

2016

Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie

2016

Not Safe with Nikki Glaser

2016

Gravity Falls: Between the Pines

2016

The Comments

2015

A Walk in the Woods

2015

Welcome to Bridgetown

2015

Celebrity Family Feud

2015

Marcel, Marcel

2015

The Last Man on Earth

2015

Toy Story That Time Forgot

2014

BoJack Horseman

2014

The Hotwives of Orlando

2014

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

@midnight with Chris Hardwick

2013

Toy Story of Terror!

2013

Gravity Falls: Six Strange Tales

2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

2013

Wander Over Yonder

2013

Despicable Me 2

2013

RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013

2013

Welcome to the Jungle

2013

Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore

2013

The Jeselnik Offensive

2013

Eugene Mirman: An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory

2012

Butter

2012

Sleepwalk with Me

2012

Gravity Falls

2012

Comedy Bang! Bang!

2012

FOX 25th Anniversary Special

2012

Transformers: Rescue Bots

2012

The Muppets

2011

The Heart, She Holler

2011

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

2011

Wilfred

2011

Hawaiian Vacation

2011

Soul Quest Overdrive

2011

Bubble Guppies

2011

Bob's Burgers

2011

Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!

2011

Conan

2010

Scared Shrekless

2010

Going the Distance

2010

FCU: Fact Checkers Unit

2010

Dinner for Schmucks

2010

Toy Story 3

2010

Get Him to the Greek

2010

Shrek Forever After

2010

Adventure Time

2010

Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge

2010

Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge

2010

Valentine's Day

2010

When in Rome

2010

Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole

2010

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009

Modern Family

2009

Archer

2009

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

2009

Glee

2009

Snake 'n' Bacon

2009

Flight of the Conchords: On Air

2009

The Penguins of Madagascar

2008

The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008

2008

Xavier: Renegade Angel

2007

FCU: Fact Checkers Unit

2007

Mad Men

2007

Delirious

2007

Flight of the Conchords

2007

Human Giant

2007

The Whitest Kids U' Know

2007

Norbit

2007

30 Rock

2006

Freak Show

2006

Ugly Betty

2006

Six Degrees

2006

Live at Gotham

2006

Conviction

2006

How I Met Your Mother

2005

Adam & Steve

2005

American Dad!

2005

Big Fat Quiz

2004

From Other Worlds

2004

The Soup

2004

Poster Boy

2004

DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection

2003

Kate & Leopold

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

2000

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Hello Kitty’s Paradise: Learn With Love

1999 Debut

Comedy Central Presents

1998

Comedy Lab

1998

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996

The Daily Show

1996

The Simpsons

1989
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