Ari Graynor

Born: 27 April 1983

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Years Active: 2001-present

Ariel Geltman Graynor (born April 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Sopranos (2001), Fringe (2009–2010), Bad Teacher (2014), I'm Dying Up Here (2017), and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024). In film, she has starred in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008), The Sitter (2011), For a Good Time, Call... (2012), and The Disaster Artist (2017).

Graynor was born April 27, 1983, in Boston, the daughter of Joani Geltman, a parenting expert, and Greg Graynor, a contractor.

Her mother is from a Jewish family; her father is from a Polish and Roman Catholic background, and converted to Judaism. Graynor was raised Jewish. Her paternal grandfather's surname was changed from "Gryzna".

She attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (class of 2001), and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

During a June 29, 2017, CBS late-night interview with Stephen Colbert, promoting I'm Dying Up Here, she mentioned she went to a prom with future congressman Joe Kennedy III.