Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress, comedian and writer. Gardner has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2017, beginning in 43rd season, where she debuted as a featured player alongside Chris Redd and Luke Null. Beginning with the show's 45th season in 2019, Gardner and Redd were both promoted to the repertory status.
Prior to joining SNL, she was a member of the Groundlings main company. In 2015, she started voicing Cooch in the Adult Swim series SuperMansion, a role she currently has. Following her first year on SNL, Gardner was hired to play the supporting role of Leonor in the Ben Falcone-directed 2018 comedy film Life of the Party which stars Melissa McCarthy.
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 gets shut down. In 2019, Gardner made her stage debut in Michael Frayn's Noises Off at The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts.
Gardner, who had never broken character in seven seasons on SNL, cracked while playing NewsNation host Bobbi Moore in a Beavis and Butthead-centered sketch on April 13, 2024. Vulture magazine described the moment as breaking in "spectacularly charming fashion".
Gardner lead the cast in sketch appearances in Season 49, joining the SNL greats who have accomplished this feat.
Celebrity Impressions[]
- Kristen Schaal
- Ainsley Earhardt
- Dana Bash
- Drew Barrymore
- Allison Janney
- Abigail Spanberger
- Jill Biden
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
- Kim Kardashian
- Wally Funk
- Ashley Olsen
- Deborah Birx
- Erin Andrews
- Frances Haugen
- Jackie Speier
- John Michael Wozniak
- Judy Woodruff
- Kersti Kaljulaid
- Mette Frederiksen
- Taylor Swift
- Kristi Noem
- Liz Cheney
- Judy Woodruff
- Tracy Wolfson
Characters[]
- Angel: every boxer's girlfriend
- Bailey Gismert: teen film critic
- Baskin Johns: Goop staffer
- Brie Bacardi, one half of a shallow couple always on the brink of an argument, who runs a relationship-themed Instagram account with her boyfriend Nico Slobkin (Mikey Day).
- Mandy, a cousin of a celebrity that shames their movie careers
- Sandy, a joyful cook of a baking reality competition show that is qualified and skilled though she often gets passed over as a winner for more poorly-constructed and eccentric cakes
- Tamra, an intern who pitches Instagram captions for Mattel's Barbie account
- Deidre, one half of a couple who describe their vacation to their friends, naïvely misinterpreting poor experiences as prestigious culture
- Jan Janby, a British psychic tarot card reader
- Crystal, (Your Co-worker who's extremely busy doing seemingly nothing), who comes to Weekend Update to complain about her job, though it's unclear what she actually does
- Bobbi Moore, a NewsNation reporter