Amy Poehler

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Amy Poehler attends the Fresh Air Fund's Salute To American Heroes on June 5, 2008 in New York.New mom Amy Poehler looked fabulous at last weekend’s Golden Globes in a sleek and strapless Pamela Rolland gown. My sons’ preschool has a rule – when you start as a 3-year old, you absolutely MUST be potty trained. Like fully go-in-the-stall-by-yourself-and-wipe-your-own-butt potty trained. Impossible? Cruel? Well, it may sound like it from the outside but I’ll tell you, for 99% of the kids who walk through that door, it works.Today Amy Poehler has confirmed to The Associated Press that she'll be joining The Office spin-off, which will eventually take her to primetime and retire from Saturday Night Live.

Amy Poehler was first involved with sketch comedy when she joined the group My Mother's Flea Bag when she was attending Boston College. In 1993, she went to Chicago where she studied at Second City and Improv Olympics. There, she met Del Close.Poehler could be seen starring opposite Tina Fey in Universal Pictures' hit comedy film "Baby Mama" and also lent her voice to the animated film "Horton Hears a Who!" with Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. Poehler had a starring role in the ice-skating comedy "Blades of Glory," alongside Will Ferrell, Will Arnett and Jon Heder, and she also provided the voice to the boxoffice smash hit "Shrek the Third" as Snow White. Her other feature credits include the hit comedy "Mean Girls," "Mr. Woodcock," "Southland Tales.

Poehler, 39, is having a year she’s long deserved: She was nominated for an Emmy; Time named her one of the 100 most influential people of the year; and Parks.

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Emmy Award nominee Amy Poehler stars as mid-level bureaucrat Leslie Knope on the new NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation." The new series is a half-hour mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government.Getting her start in a comedy team called "My Mother's Fleabag" while studying at Boston College, the frantically energized Amy Poehler has become an improv queen of sorts on the comedy circuit. After graduation, Poehler got involved with Second City.
Amy Poehler.