Ego Nwodim actress and comedian who is a featured player on the forty-fourth season of Saturday Night Live.

Nwodim began her comedy career after graduating from the University of Southern California, when she began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) in Los Angeles. Until joining SNL, Nwodim was a regular cast member at UCB, where she also performed her one-woman show "Great Black Women...and Then There's Me".

Nwodim was named one of the New Faces at the 2016 Just for Laughs festival. Also that year, she performed at the CBS Diversity Showcase. Supporting roles on television for Nwodim include Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, 2 Broke Girls, and Living Biblically. Impersonating Maya Angelou, Nwodim roasted various celebrities and companies in a 2017 Funny or Die sketch. Nwodim has made several guest appearances on the podcast "Comedy Bang! Bang!"

Nwodim's addition to the cast of Saturday Night Live, a long-running NBC sketch-comedy show, as a featured player was announced on September 21, 2018. Nwodim's addition to the cast marks the seventh time an African-American female has been hired on the show.

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