Rachel Sennott

Rachel Sennott (born Rachel Anne Sennott on September 19, 1995, in Connecticut) is an American actress, screenwriter and comedian. After training at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she began her career on the New York City open mic scene and co-developed two Comedy Central shows with Ayo Edebiri. She gained critical attention for her breakout role in Shiva Baby (2020), which earned her a Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor.

Sennott followed Shiva Baby with film roles in the comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) and the drama I Used to Be Funny (2023), and she co-wrote and starred in the satirical teen comedy Bottoms (2023), for which she and director Emma Seligman earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. In 2024 she portrayed Rosie Shuster in the biographical comedy Saturday Night. On television, she had a supporting role in the HBO drama series The Idol (2023) and leads the HBO comedy series I Love LA (2025-present), which she also wrote and produced. She also co-created the Netflix crime comedy series Big Mistakes (2026) with Dan Levy.

Sennott became interested in comedy as a freshman in college, when she went to an open mic night on a date, and graduated from NYU Tisch and the Stella Adler Studio in 2017. In 2018 she turned to Twitter comedy, writing multiple short jokes per day, and developed two shows, Puke Fest and Ur Gonna Slp Rlly Well Tonight. Her "messy" comedic persona, often complaining about dating and the economy, became popular in the alt scene, and in 2019 she was named one of the six best comedians of the alt scene by both Time Out New York and Pop Dust. Of her performance in Bodies Bodies Bodies, The New York Times Style Magazine wrote that her ability "to inject an astonishing range of meaning into Alice's various cries and yowls ... steals the show."