Ayo Edebiri Net Worth

What is Ayo Edebiri's Net Worth?

Ayo Edebiri is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and director who has a net worth of $4 million. Ayo Edebiri is best known for her role as chef Sydney Adamu on the Hulu television series "The Bear," for which she has won Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe Awards. Among her other credits are the television series "Big Mouth," "Dickinson," "Abbott Elementary," and "Clone High" and the films "Theater Camp," "Bottoms," "Omni Loop," "Inside Out 2," and "After the Hunt."

Early Life and Education

Ayo Edebiri was born on October 3, 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts to a mother from Barbados and an Edo father from Nigeria. An only child, she attended the Boston Latin School, where she was a member of the improv club. Edebiri went on to attend New York University, from which she earned her BFA degree. During her time in college, she interned for the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy group.

Television Career

In 2014, Edebiri made her television debut with a guest role on the series "Defectives." She focused on screenwriting after that, and in 2019 penned an episode of the short-lived NBC sitcom "Sunnyside." Edebiri subsequently created and co-starred in the series "Ayo and Rachel Are Single" with her friend and fellow comedian and actress Rachel Sennott; it premiered on Comedy Central in 2020. Later in the year, she became a writer and voice actress on the Netflix adult animated sitcom "Big Mouth," joining the show for its fourth season. Edebiri voiced the character Missy Foreman-Greenwald, taking over the role from Jenny Slate. She remained on "Big Mouth" until its conclusion in 2025. Meanwhile, in 2021, Edebiri played the recurring role of Hattie in the second season of the Apple TV+ series "Dickinson." She also served as a writer on two episodes of the show.

Edebiri gained her greatest recognition yet when she began playing chef Sydney Adamu on the Hulu series "The Bear," which premiered in 2022. For her work, she has earned Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe Awards. Edebiri also earned an Emmy nomination for directing the season three episode "Napkins." The same year "The Bear" premiered, Edebiri wrote an episode of "What We Do in the Shadows," for which she received a WGA Award nomination. She went on to have a huge year in 2023, appearing in "Abbott Elementary," "History of the World, Part II," "Kiff," "Black Mirror," "Clone High," and "Mulligan," among other series. Edebiri also wrote an episode of "Mulligan." In 2024, she hosted an episode of "Saturday Night Live" and began voicing April O'Neil on the animated "Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Elsewhere, Edebiri lent her voice to some episodes of the animated sitcom "Everybody Still Hates Chris."

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Film Career

Edebiri made her feature film debut with a small part in the 2020 gay romance "Cicada." Also that year, she made an uncredited appearance in the coming-of-age film "Shithouse." In 2021, Edebiri appeared in "How it Ends" and "As of Yet," and in 2022 she was in the Netflix romantic drama "Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between," based on the novel of the same name by Jennifer E. Smith. Edebiri had her most prolific year on the big screen to date in 2023, when she was in five films. The first was the mockumentary comedy "Theater Camp," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Edebiri next starred alongside Rachel Sennott as one half of a pair of high school lesbian virgins in the black comedy "Bottoms." Following that, she appeared in the surrealist road film "The Sweet East." Edebiri's other two film roles in 2023 were voice roles in animated superhero films. In "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," she voiced Glory Grant, and in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," she voiced April O'Neil.

In her first film of 2024, Edebiri starred opposite Mary-Louise Parker in the science-fiction drama "Omni Loop," playing a college research assistant who helps a dying woman travel back in time. She then voiced the character Envy in Pixar's animated coming-of-age film "Inside Out 2," the sequel to "Inside Out." A blockbuster hit, "Inside Out 2" became the highest-grossing film of the year. Edebiri went on to star in three major films in 2025, starting with the thriller "Opus," in which she played journalist Ariel Ecton. She next starred as a philosophy student who accuses a professor of sexual misconduct in Luca Guadagnino's psychological thriller "After the Hunt," co-starring Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield. In her final film of 2025, Edebiri played Susan in James L. Brooks's political dramedy "Ella McCay," starring Emma Mackey and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Other Work

In addition to her television and film work, Edebiri appeared in the music videos for Tyler, the Creator's 2024 songs "Noid" and "Darling, I." She also directed the 2025 music video for Clairo's song "Terrapin," starring Weird Al Yankovic. In 2026, Edebiri made her Broadway debut in the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's play "Proof," directed by Thomas Kail.

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