Chloe Fineman

Chloe Rose Fineman is an American actress and comedian best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. She joined the show as a featured player in September 2019 for its 45th season and was promoted to repertory status in 2021 ahead of the 47th season. After performing on the cast for seven seasons, she announced her departure from the series in July 2026.

Fineman was born to Ellen Gunn, a painter, and David Fineman, a biotechnology executive, and she grew up with two sisters, Emma and Alexia. She attended Camp Kee Tov at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, California, and graduated from Piedmont High School in 2006. During her high school years, she directed productions of Metamorphoses and The Vagina Monologues, acted in plays including The Visit and Crimes of the Heart, and performed a peafowl impression on the Late Show with David Letterman after competing in a bird-calling contest. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2011.

Following college, Fineman moved to Los Angeles, where she performed with The Groundlings troupe's Sunday Company and in Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre shows. She developed a prominent online presence through front-facing camera comedy videos on Instagram and YouTube, becoming particularly recognized for her celebrity impressions. Her television career began with appearances on series such as Jane the Virgin and Search Party. In 2018, she was named a New Face at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, and she received a nomination for Best Comedian at the 2019 Shorty Awards.

Fineman joined Saturday Night Live alongside Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis in September 2019. Over the course of her tenure, she became known for impersonating various public figures, including Drew Barrymore, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Britney Spears, Timothée Chalamet, Julianne Moore, Miley Cyrus, JoJo Siwa, Shia LaBeouf, Kim Cattrall, and Jennifer Coolidge. Alongside her television sketch work, she expanded into acting roles across television and feature films.

In 2021, Fineman portrayed poet Sylvia Plath in the Apple TV+ series Dickinson. She followed this with supporting film roles, playing wedding planner Natalie Vance in the 2022 romantic comedy Father of the Bride and Marion Davies in Damien Chazelle's film Babylon. Director Francis Ford Coppola cast her as Clodia Pulcher in the 2024 film Megalopolis after viewing her 2019 stage show performance imitating Melania Trump. She subsequently starred in the 2025 comedy film Summer of 69 on Hulu and served as a spokesperson for Anheuser-Busch's Nütrl Vodka Seltzer starting in 2023.