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FUNNYLADY Aubrey Plaza followed up her six-year stint as deadpan April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation with a more serious turn in the FX series Legion. This month, the 38-yearold is delving deeper into drama with the title role in Emily the Criminal. Here are ten things you don’t know about Aubrey, who was once voted the most famous person from Delaware.
Plaza plays Lenny Busker in the FX series Legion
1 She was named after Bread’s 1973 single Aubrey and says of the tune, “It’s a love song — kind of — but it’s kind of depressing and dark.”
2 She worked as an intern on Saturday Night Live and as an NBC page, which she calls “the lowest of the low.”
3 At age 20, she suffered a stroke resulting in temporary paralysis and expressive aphasia. Though she fully recovered, she recalls, “I
could understand what’s happening, but I couldn’t talk or communicate.”
4 She was an improv performer at the legendary Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.
5 Though she’s of Puerto Rican descent on her father’s side — and her Parks and Recreation character spoke Spanish — Aubrey herself only knows English.
6 The Notebook’s Ryan Gosling once tried to chat her up in line at a shop, but she didn’t know who he was — even though he looked familiar. “I got my juice and left. I missed my shot,” she moans.
7 She jokingly crashed Will Ferrell’s acceptance speech when he was honored with the Comedic Genius trophy at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards — and producers promptly booted her from the event.
8 She claims both women and men are attracted to her and reasons, “There’s something masculine about my energy. Girls are into me — that’s no secret. Hey, I’m into them, too.”
9 She voiced animated mall cashier Nocturna in season nine of SpongeBob SquarePants.
10 She had an impromptu wedding with Life After Beth’s writer and director Jeff Baena in 2021
— to celebrate their tenth anniversary as a couple after getting bored during the pandemic.
LOADED Kevin Costner is riding tall in the saddle — he has just become TV’s highest-paid star, commanding a stunning $1.3 million for each episode of his testosterone-laden series Yellowstone!
The Dances with Wolves dude, 67, is the star and executive producer of the modern Western, which heads into its fifth season in November.
The only actor matching Costner’s paycheck is Mahershala Ali, who gets $1.3 million per episode for The Plot — but that’s a limited series with only eight installments.