Laraine Newman
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Avatar: The Last Airbender credits
Lily
- Character information: Lily
- 202. "The Cave of Two Lovers"
Selected other credits
Television work
- As Told by Ginger
- Jungle Junction
- Metalocalypse
- Saturday Night Live
- The Canned Film Festival
- The Oblongs
Filmography
- Girls Season 38 (2013)
- Tangled (2010)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
- The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
- Up (2009)
- Ponyo (2008)
Other credits
- Bee Movie Game (video game)
- Madagascar (video game)
- Spider-Man 3 (video game)
- Stupid Invaders (video game)
- The Rise of the Argonauts (video game)
- True Crime: New York City (video game)
Biographical information
Personal life
Newman is the youngest of four children and a twin; her sister Tracy Newman is an Emmy Award-winning television writer. She attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California, and married actor, writer, and director Chad Einbinder in 1991. They have two daughters together: Lena, born 1991, and Hannah, born 1995.
Career
She began her comedy career as a founding member of The Groundlings and is best known for being an original cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live, appearing on the show from its inception in 1975 through 1980. She originated the characters of Sheri The Valley Girl and Connie Conehead, among others.
Newman's post-SNL film career has been in supporting roles and as a voice artist in animated features. Newman also works as a writer and editor, contributing to the online magazine One For The Table and occasionally to the Huffington Post. She has also contributed articles for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, and McSweeney's. She wrote the foreword to the book version of the UCB Production Worst Laid Plans.
