Rachel Sennott

Rachel Sennott (birthname: Rachel Anne Sennott) is one of the most acclaimed millennial comedian-actors, emerging from alt-comedy clubs in New York to land roles in television and the movies, starting with a co-starring role in the queer indie drama, Tahara (2020), directed by Olivia Peace and written by Jess Zeidman, co-starring Madeline Grey DeFreece, premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival and released by Film Movement.

Sennott had played the lead role of a young bisexual Jewish woman in director-writer Emma Seligman’s 2018 short film, Shiva Baby, and two years later returned to the same but expanded role in Seligman’s highly acclaimed debut feature version, with Molly Gordon, Polly Draper, Fred Melamed, and Dianna Agron, and premiering (online) at the South by Southwest Film Festival and then in its theatrical premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, before receiving its theatrical release via Utopia.

Sennott played a podcaster in the Halina Reijn-directed horror comedy, Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), co-starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Lee Pace, and Pete Davidson, returning $14 million for distributor A24 on a $3 million budget after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Sennott had a supporting role in director/co-writer Sophie Kargman’s U.K.-made mystery comedy, Susie Searches (2022), with Kiersey Clemons, Alex Wolff, Jim Gaffigan, and Alex Moffat, and after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival playing theatrically via Vertical.

Rachel Sennott had her feature film breakout as co-star, co-screenwriter, and executive producer of director/co-writer Emma Seligman’s uproarious teen comedy for Orion Pictures, Bottoms (2023), starring the colorful cast Ayo Edebiri (a frequent comedy partner with Sennott), Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber and Marshawn Lynch, returning a weak $13.6 million for distributor MGM. Sennott had one of her first starring roles in a comedy-drama as a depressed standup comic in director/writer Ally Pankiw’s critically acclaimed Canadian debut feature, I Used to Be Funny (2023), premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival and receiving a small release by Levefilm.

Sennott co-starred in her third non-U.S. production, Italian director/writer Saverio Costanzo’s 1950s-set drama, Finalmente l’alba/Finally Dawn (2023), co-starring Lily James, Rebecca Antonaci, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher and Willem Dafoe, and after premiering in competition in the Venice Film Festival and the Busan Film Festival, released by 01 Distribution. Sennott landed her biggest role to date as a lead co-star in director/co-writer/producer Jason Reitman’s comedy-drama for Columbia Pictures about the long-running NBC comedy show, Saturday Night (2024), with Gabriel LaBelle, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O’Brien, Emily Fairn, Lamorne Morris, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Dafoe, Matthew Rhys and J.K. Simmons, and released by Sony Pictures Releasing.

Rachel Sennott joined the cast of Nicole Kidman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen, and Jude Hill in the Mimi Cave-directed thriller, Holland, Michigan (date to be announced), produced by Kidman’s Blossom Films and released by United Artists.