Heidi Gardner
Actor
- Born
- July 27, 1983 (age 43) · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since season 43 in 2017, when she debuted as a featured player.
In 2014, Gardner joined the Sunday Company and a year later after a promotion to the Main Company, she quit her job as a hairstylist to focus on acting. During that time, she became a voice actress, regularly appearing on animated series incuding Bratz, SuperMansion, and Mike Tyson Mysteries. In 2017, she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (SNL) along with Luke Null and Chris Redd for its forty-third season.
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After her first year on SNL, Gardner was hired to play Leonor in the Ben Falcone-directed film Life of the Party, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Falcone's wife. On August 28, 2019, TVLine reported that Gardner would have a guest role on the NBC comedy series Superstore, playing Dina Fox's nemesis Colleen who is transferred to Store 1217 after Cloud 9's Bel-Ridge location is shut down.
Known for
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
December 7, 2022
Hustle
June 3, 2022
Scary Movie
June 3, 2026
Leo
November 17, 2023
Life of the Party
May 10, 2018
Otherhood
August 13, 2019
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
May 12, 2020
Making Babies
March 29, 2019
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
February 14, 2025
Lorne
April 17, 2026
I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story
January 20, 2024
Übermansion
August 25, 2013
Acting19
- 2026You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... as Self
- 2026Scary Movie as Agent Berger
- 2026Lorne as Self (uncredited)
- 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2024I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story as Self
- 2023Leo as Eli’s Mom (voice)
- 2022Puss in Boots: The Last Wish as Last Baker (voice)
- 2022Hustle as Kat Merrick
- 2021See You in the Sky as Woman
- 2020