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Cheri Oteri (born September 19th, 1965 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress
and comedian best known for her work on NBC's
Saturday Night Live.

Oteri grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper
Darby, Pennsylvania (also the hometown of SNL
writer/performer Tina Fey).  Moving to Los Angeles
at age 25, she worked at A&M Records for four
years and eventually joined the famed comedy
troupe The Groundlings.  It was there that she was
noticed by SNL and was hired in 1995 as part of a
nearly all-new cast brought in to save the show
after the disastrous 1994 season.  Oteri would
eventually form a third of the so-called "SNL
female power trio" that also included Molly
Shannon and Ana Gasteyer and which was
responsible, along with Will Ferrell, Darrell
Hammond and others, for bringing SNL out of its
slump.

She was known for playing perky, upbeat, often
hyper characters including cheerleader-wannabe
Arianna, grouchy grandmother Rita DelVecchio, and
the pill-addicted Collette Reardon.  Her dead-on
impression of Barbara Walters also bolstered her
fame.

Oteri left SNL in 2000.  Since then she has
appeared in several movies including Scary Movie
and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, and
also on the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm.