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Actress Aubrey Plaza studied Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler in HS Playing the intern on a Thursday night NBC sitcom is not a bad gig for a young actor. Look at B.J. Novak, the young man who plays “Ryan” on “The Office.” He was literally unknown when he joined the show and quickly became […]

“I’m really bad at picking my favorite anything,” says Aubrey Plaza, the 25- year-old actress who appears on NBC’s primetime gem Parks and Recreation. “I don’t really have a favorite movie or band or color or candy bar or parent. I’m pretty inconsistent in all areas of my life. Maybe that’s why I’m an actor?” […]

Actress, Delaware native Aubrey Plaza garden attention, television roles During her two weeks back home in Delaware during the holidays, it didn’t take long for 2009’s success to catch up with actress/comedienne Aubrey Plaza. While taking a break from shopping for Christmas presents at the Concord Mall, the co-star of NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” met […]

The rising comedic star talks about this new DVD, Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and more. Around this time last year, I was reading up on Judd Apatow’s new directorial effort, Funny People, since I was going to be visiting the set of the film. Among the huge names in the film […]

Now that “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” has wrapped principal photography, the movie’s many cast members are starting to talk about their work on the Edgar Wright-directed comic book adaptation. Today, actress Aubrey Plaza is getting in on that action. Plaza plays Julie Powers in “Scott Pilgrim,” the occasional girlfriend of Scott’s band mate Stephen […]

Aubrey Plaza is not a new hipster hangout downtown. She’s a young and adorable comic actress from Wilmington, Del. And she’s had quite the career launch playing Seth Rogen’s girlfriend in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People,” which stars comedy legend Adam Sandler. You may recognize her intern role on “Parks and Recreation.” And you might have […]

It was just about this time last summer when life changed in a big way for Aubrey Plaza, who can currently be seen as Seth Rogen’s love interest in the new Judd Apatow film “Funny People.” She had come to Los Angeles from New York for a final audition for her role in the Apatow […]

For Funny People, which is essentially a movie about comedians, in varying degrees of success in their careers, writer/director Judd Apatow cast real stand-up comics, including co-stars Aziz Ansari and newcomer Aubrey Plaza. Taking an innovative approach by making her own live stand-up audition tape and posting it on YouTube, Aubrey Plaza was immediately offered […]

Aubrey Plaza plays Daisy in the new Adam Sandler/Seth Rogan film FUNNY PEOPLE. She describes her character, “…an upcoming comedienne who moved from LA to New York and she’s kind of like, new to the stand up circuit. She falls in with a crowd where she meets Jason Schwartzman’s character and Seth Rogan’s character. It’s […]

Sometimes, a career arc can form a complete circle. Case in point: comedian Aubrey Plaza, who plays the bored intern April opposite Amy Poehler in NBC’s Parks and Recreation, and who makes her big screen debut this week as Seth Rogen’s diffident standup comic love interest in Judd Apatow’s Funny People. The 25-year-old’s career at […]