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1982-08-22 · Washington, D.C., USA · Female

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Aparna Nancherla is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has had recurring roles on television series including BoJack Horseman and Corporate and has written for Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla released her debut comedy album Just Putting It Out There through Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016. Her memoir, Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself and Imposter Syndrome came out September 19, 2023 on Penguin Randomhouse.

Early life

Aparna Nancherla was born in Washington, D.C., United States into an Indian Telugu Hindu family; her parents immigrated to the United States from Hyderabad, India in the 1970s. She has an older sibling, Bhavana.

She grew up outside Washington, attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. Nancherla attended Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and studied psychology. She graduated in 2005.

Career

After college she returned to Washington, D.C., where she began her standup career. Nancherla moved to Los Angeles, then to New York City to write for Totally Biased until the show's cancellation in 2013. Nancherla was subsequently a staff writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers in 2015.

Nancherla's credits also include several web series, including Your Main Thing with John Early, and co-created and starred in Womanhood, a satirical advice series with comedian Jo Firestone.

Live-action

Nancherla has appeared on Conan and Comedy Central's The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Variety named her to its list of "Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2016" and The New York Times said that Nancherla "has become a comic in demand for her quirky, relatable and punchy humor." She is also the co-host of Blue Woman Group, which the Daily Beast calls "a hilarious podcast about depression."

In 2016, Comedy Central announced that Nancherla would record a half-hour special for the network.

In 2017, she played a ramen blogger in season two of Master of None, had a recurring role in the first two seasons of the HBO series Crashing, which aired from 2017 to 2018, and played Grace in the Comedy Central series Corporate, which aired from 2017 to 2020.

In March 2018 she appeared on the Netflix series The Standups. She also made her feature debut in the 2018 film A Simple Favor.

In 2019 she was featured in Laughing Matters, a 30-minute YouTube documentary created by SoulPancake in collaboration with Funny or Die wherein a variety of comedians discuss mental health.

In 2020, she appeared on the Netflix series Space Force as Pella Bhat. She also delivered a TED Talk, "The Joy of Taking Out The Trash".

On January 17, 2024, Nancherla was one of the panelist-contestants on the premiere episode of After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson.

In December 2025, the comedy streaming service Dropout published Nancherla's first full-length special, Hopeful Potato.

Voice acting

In 2017, she voiced Kishy in the short-lived animated series Ginger Snaps.

In seasons four, five and six of BoJack Horseman, from 2017 to 2020, Nancherla had a recurring voice role as BoJack's half-sister Hollyhock. She also voiced Mrs. Singh in Fancy Nancy from 2018 to 2022.

In the fifth season of Steven Universe, Nancherla voiced Nephrite and several Jades. In the Bob's Burgers season 9 episode "UFO No You Didn't", which aired in December 2018, she voiced Susmita, Tina's science partner. She returned to voice Susmita in the "Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff School" episode.

From 2020 to 2022, she voiced the recurring character Meena in the Disney Junior series Mira, Royal Detective.

Since January 2021, she has voiced Moon Tobin in the Fox animated series The Great North. In October 2021, she voiced the guest character Sheela in The Ghost and Molly McGee.

In 2022, Nancherla voiced Chelsea Hill in the adult animated series Fairview, She also provided guest voices for the series Central Park, and supporting characters such as Oddjobs and Opie in Summer Camp Island.

In March 2023, she voiced a librarian named Miss Moufflé in Kiff. She also voiced Snail in an animated adaptation of Frog and Toad.

Works and books

Nancherla, Aparna (November 28, 2016). "Comedian Aparna Nancherla on Having Compassion in the Face of Bigotry". Broadly.

Nancherla, Aparna (published September 19, 2023). "Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome". Viking.

Discography

Just Putting It Out There (2016) – CD/Download