"Ashley Padilla has been on "Saturday Night Live" for less than two seasons (a blip in Kenan Thompson Years), but she's already amassing accolades usually reserved for the likes of Maya Rudolph or Will Ferrell. Vulture compared her to a young Tom Brady, the New York Times recently published a frame-by-frame breakdown of her comic timing, and Glamour declared the dawning of the Ashley Padilla Era."
"The 32-year-old is also the latest in a long line of Bay Area-born "SNL" cast members - a list that includes Will Forte, Rob Schneider, Andy Samberg (plus his Lonely Island bandmates) and Padilla's current castmate, Chloe Fineman. Padilla spent most of her childhood in Livermore, an outer suburb that isn't known as a hotbed for burgeoning comedians. But that could change."
"Before moving to Livermore, Padilla lived in Oakland and went to the Montclair Elementary School, where she was partial to the gone-but-not-forgotten Montclair Malt Shop. Padilla is one of four children, all raised by her single mom. "She worked her way up at a company, and she just did it all without going to college," Padilla said."
"Despite her eventual career path, Padilla was not a theater kid. She was in one play - a rendition of "The Emperor's New Clothes" - but didn't have many other outlets to harness her creativity and drive to perform. "That was the only thing I really did, other than being annoying," Padilla said. To help out her single mom, Padilla started working at a Livermore movie theater while still a teenager, though "working" may be phrasing it generously."
Ashley Padilla has quickly gained major recognition for her work on Saturday Night Live despite having been on the show for less than two seasons. She is 32 and part of a Bay Area lineage of cast members that includes Will Forte, Rob Schneider, Andy Samberg, and Chloe Fineman. She spent much of her childhood in Livermore after moving from Oakland, attending Montclair Elementary School, and growing up as one of four children raised by a single mother. Her grandmother worked as a teacher’s aide and her grandfather worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was not a theater-focused performer, but she worked at a local movie theater as a teenager to help her mother.
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