At the 2024 Golden Globe Awards held last night, Nigerian-American actress Ayo Edebiri was among the many stars who went home with an award. She won the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy for her performance as Sydney Adamu in the series, The Bear. 

Edebiri is not just an actress but also a television writer. Since 2020, she has served as a writer and performed a voice role on Big Mouth. She also wrote for the comedy series “What We Do In the Shadows” in 2022. She also voiced roles in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. She also appeared in the comedy films Theater Camp and Bottoms.

For the award category, Edebiri went head-on with Rachel Brosnahan, Quinta Brunson, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, and Natasha Lyonne to win the awards.  

Edebiri was not the only winner at the Awards night, The series in which she starred, The Bear tells the story of a cutthroat Michelin Star-obsessed restaurant also got nominations for five awards and took home three at the Awards night, including Jeremy Allen White for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy and Ali Wong for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Movie. 

Edebiri was born on October 3rd, 1995 in Boston to a Nigerian father and a Barbadian mother. Edebiri had always been interested in comedy since her eighth-grade drama class after which she joined the improv club at Boston Latin School. In her tertiary studies, she switched from Teaching, her intended course of study to Dramatic Writing and proceeded to pursue a comedy career as a junior in college. 

She has also been nominated for several award categories including Gotham Independent Film Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and Writers Guild of America Awards, among others. She has also featured in several other television series like Defectives, Bigtop Burger, Dickinson, The Premise, and Pause with Sam Jay, among others.