Samberg learned about ‘Saturday Night Live’ “by accident” when he was only eight. His song “Dick in a Box” a duet with Justin Timberlake, won a “Creative Arts Emmy” for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. In 2014, Andy also won the American Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Actor – TV. He was born on August 18, 1978, in Berkeley, California, United States.Īndy was a member of the group comedy group, The Lonely Island and also a former cast member of “Saturday Night Live” from 2005 to 2012. While at NYU, writer Murray Miller was his roommate. He attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz for two years before transferring to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 2000. Samberg graduated from Berkeley High School in 1996, where he became interested in creative writing and has stated that writing classes “were the ones that put all effort into… that’s what cared about and that’s what ended up doing”. Marrow, through whom he is a third cousin to US Senator Tammy Baldwin. Samberg’s adoptive grandfather was industrial psychologist and philanthropist Alfred J. In a 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Samberg discovered that his mother Marjorie, who was adopted by Jewish parents, is the biological daughter of a Sicilian (Italian) Catholic father named Salvatore Maida, who immigrated in 1925, and a German-Jewish refugee mother named Ellen Philipsborn, who had come to the US in 1938 they met in San Francisco. Samberg attended elementary school with his future Brooklyn Nine Nine co-star Chelsea Peretti. Samberg was raised in a Jewish family he considers himself as “not particularly religious.” His mother, Marjorie “Margi” (née Marrow), is an elementary school teacher, and his father, Joe, is a photographer.Īt age 5, he told his parents that he wanted to change his name to Andy.
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