Overview

• Elliott joined Saturday Night Live in 2008 at age 21, drawing on her lineage as the daughter of Chris Elliott and granddaughter of Bob Elliott.
• She has recounted the intense weekly pressure to land a sketch, fearing three blank weeks would cost her spot in Studio 8H.
• After initially asking to depart then changing her mind, she was dismissed by Lorne Michaels at the end of the 2012 season.
• Following her SNL exit, Elliott built a scripted-TV career with appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Odd Mom Out and Indebted before earning acclaim on FX’s The Bear.
• Her 2024 Golden Globe nomination for The Bear preceded candid June 2025 remarks in which she called being fired “the worst that could happen.”