Chelsea Peretti

Chelsea Vanessa Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Peretti portrays Gina Linetti on the Fox police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Early life
Chelsea Vanessa Peretti was born on February 20, 1978 in Contra Costa County, California. Her mother is Jewish and her father is of English and Italian descent. Peretti was raised in Oakland, California. She has two brothers and a sister; her older brother, internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founded BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. Peretti attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland. She moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Barnard College and graduated in 2000. She attended elementary school with her Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star Andy Samberg and junior high school with comedian Moshe Kasher.

Writing
Peretti has written for The Village Voice, Details, Playgirl, Jest, American Theatre Magazine, as well as online publications like The Huffington Post.

Television
After moving to Los Angeles, Peretti made appearances on programs such as Louie, The Sarah Silverman Program, TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., and Tosh.0. She appeared as a guest correspondent on one episode of Lopez Tonight interviewing local citizens about Prop 8.

Peretti is credited as a writer on six episodes of the television show Parks and Recreation from 2011 to 2012.

Since 2013, Peretti has been a series regular on Fox's detective/police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, playing Gina Linetti.

In other media
While in New York she made short films with Variety SHAC, a comedy troupe she formed in 2004 along with Andrea Rosen, Heather Lawless, and Shonali Bhowmik.

She has made several guest appearances on podcasts including Doug Loves Movies, How Did This Get Made?, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, The Todd Glass Show, The Lavender Hour, The Bone Zone with Brendon Walsh and Randy Liedtke, and Comedy Bang! Bang! In October 2012, Peretti launched her own call-in podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti.

In July 2010, Peretti made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list.

Paste ranked her Twitter account #75 on "The 75 Best Twitter Accounts of 2014".

Personal life
Peretti began dating actor, comedian, and filmmaker Jordan Peele in March 2013. They were introduced by mutual friend Andy Samberg and became engaged in November 2015. On April 26, 2016, Peretti announced on Instagram that she and Peele had "eloped". They have a son named Beaumont Gino Peele (born July 1, 2017).