Annie Mumolo

Annie Mumolo
Born	Anne Mumolo 7/10/1973
Birthplace	Irvine, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Screenwriter, actress, comedian, producer
Known for	Co-writer of Bridesmaids
Education	University of California, Berkeley
Children	2

Annie Mumolo (born July 10, 1973) is an American screenwriter, actress, comedian, and producer. She came to wide attention as the co-writer, with Kristen Wiig, of the 2011 comedy film Bridesmaids, for which the two received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Original Screenplay. A longtime member of The Groundlings improvisational theater in Los Angeles, Mumolo built her early career in sketch comedy and voice acting before moving into screenwriting and on-screen roles in studio comedies.

In addition to Bridesmaids, Mumolo co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred with Wiig in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021). She has appeared in supporting roles in films including This Is 40 (2012), Afternoon Delight (2013), The Boss (2016), Bad Moms (2016), Queenpins (2020), and Confess, Fletch (2022). On television, she has had recurring and guest roles across network and streaming comedies, and in 2026 appeared in the HBO series Rooster.

Early life

Annie Mumolo was born on July 10, 1973, in Irvine, California. She was raised in Orange County, California, in a family with ties to the Italian-American community of Southern California. Her father, Dominic Mumolo, was a longtime Orange County resident whose obituary was published by the Los Angeles Times.

Mumolo attended Mater Dei High School, a Catholic preparatory school in Santa Ana, California, and was later profiled in the school's alumni publication following her recognition for Bridesmaids. In interviews with the Orange County Register, Mumolo described growing up in Orange County and noted that comedy had been a part of her interests from an early age, although she did not initially pursue performance as a career path.

Education

After graduating from Mater Dei High School, Mumolo attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her undergraduate studies. She has stated in interviews that she did not formally study theater or film at Berkeley, and that her comedic training came primarily after college, when she moved to Los Angeles and began taking classes at The Groundlings.

Career

The Groundlings and early performing work

After relocating to Los Angeles, Mumolo studied and performed at The Groundlings, the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy theater whose alumni include numerous Saturday Night Live cast members. She advanced through the company's training program and eventually became a member of the Groundlings' Main Company, the troupe's top-level performing ensemble. It was at The Groundlings that Mumolo first performed alongside Kristen Wiig, with whom she developed a close creative partnership that would continue throughout her career.

During the 2000s, Mumolo worked extensively as a voice actor. She was a member of the voice cast on animated projects developed by Frederator Studios, including work documented on the studio's production blogs, where she was credited among performers participating in recording sessions for animated shorts. She was also represented for voiceover work by talent agencies handling commercial and animation casting.

Television writing and early on-camera roles

Mumolo's early on-camera credits included guest appearances on network sitcoms and one-hour comedies. She was attached to an ABC pilot in the 2008–2009 development cycle, as documented in industry listings of that season's network projects. Throughout this period she continued performing at The Groundlings and writing material with collaborators from the company.

Bridesmaids

Mumolo and Kristen Wiig began developing what would become Bridesmaids in the mid-2000s, drawing on their experiences and observations from their lives and friendships. The screenplay was developed over several years and was eventually produced by Judd Apatow, with Paul Feig directing. The film was released in May 2011 by Universal Pictures and became both a commercial and critical success.

For their work on the screenplay, Mumolo and Wiig were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012. They also received a nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Original Screenplay, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in the same category. The nomination marked Mumolo's first Academy Award recognition and brought her significant attention as a screenwriter.

In interviews following the film's release, Mumolo discussed the long development process and her partnership with Wiig, telling the Orange County Register that the film grew out of years of writing together and of their shared sensibility as performers.

Acting work after Bridesmaids

Following the success of Bridesmaids, in which Mumolo also appeared on-screen as the nervous airplane passenger seated next to Wiig's character, she took on a series of supporting roles in studio comedies. She appeared in Judd Apatow's This Is 40 (2012) opposite Leslie Mann, in Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight (2013), and in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle The Boss (2016).

In 2016, Mumolo played the recurring antagonist Vicky in Bad Moms, a comedy directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, alongside Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn. Mumolo discussed the character in promotional interviews tied to the film's release, describing Vicky's behavior toward the lead PTA mother played by Christina Applegate.

She continued to appear in ensemble comedies through the late 2010s and early 2020s, including Queenpins (2020) and Confess, Fletch (2022). She was also cast in a star-studded Quibi murder mystery project produced by Lorne Michaels, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

In April 2019, Deadline Hollywood reported that Mumolo and Wiig had completed a new screenplay together, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and that the project was being set up at Lionsgate with the two writers attached to star. The film was directed by Josh Greenbaum and released by Lionsgate in February 2021.

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar featured Mumolo and Wiig as the title characters, two Midwestern women who travel to Florida and become entangled in a villainous plot. The film was Mumolo's first leading film role and her second produced screenplay collaboration with Wiig. In addition to writing and starring, Mumolo served as a producer on the project.

Rooster and recent work

In 2026, Mumolo joined the cast of the HBO series Rooster. Promotional materials released by Warner Bros. Discovery in March 2026 identified Mumolo as part of the show's first-season ensemble, with stills from the production credited to photographer Katrina Marcinowski.

Following the broadcast of the season's sixth episode in April 2026, Mumolo gave interviews discussing a major plot development involving the Cristle family. In a conversation published by IMDb and syndicated through several regional newspapers, she spoke about the episode's revelation concerning the characters Cristle and Tommy, and about her approach to playing scenes that recontextualized earlier episodes.

Personal life

Mumolo lives in the Los Angeles area. She is the mother of two children, whose privacy she has generally maintained in interviews. In profiles published around the release of Bridesmaids, she described balancing the demands of writing and performing with raising young children, and credited her collaborators—particularly Wiig—with making the long screenplay-development process possible.

Mumolo's father, Dominic Mumolo, died in 2009; an obituary published in the Los Angeles Times described him as a longtime Orange County resident.

Recognition

Mumolo's principal recognitions have come for her screenwriting work with Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids. The screenplay received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 84th Academy Awards, announced in January 2012. Entertainment Weeklys coverage of that year's nominations listed Mumolo and Wiig among the nominees in the Original Screenplay category.

The screenplay also received nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Writers Guild of America, among other industry bodies, during the 2011–2012 awards season. Mumolo and Wiig were also recognized by the Producers Guild of America and other organizations as part of broader recognition for Bridesmaids, which was named to multiple critics' best-of-the-year lists in 2011.

Mumolo's identity as a public figure is documented in international authority files, including the Virtual International Authority File and the German National Library's integrated authority file.

Legacy

Mumolo's screenwriting work with Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids is frequently cited in discussions of the commercial viability of female-led studio comedies in the 2010s. The film's box-office performance and its Academy Award recognition for Original Screenplay prompted renewed industry attention to comedies written by and centered on women, and Mumolo and Wiig have been identified in industry reporting as part of a cohort of writer-performers whose work emerged from improvisational and sketch comedy backgrounds, particularly The Groundlings.

Her continued collaboration with Wiig on Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar demonstrated a sustained writing partnership across a decade, with both films placing Mumolo and Wiig as co-writers and co-leads. The pair's working relationship, developed at The Groundlings in the early 2000s, has been a recurring subject in profiles and interviews about both women.

As a performer, Mumolo has built a body of supporting work in studio comedies that has connected her to many of the major comedic ensembles of the 2010s and 2020s, including those organized around Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, and Lorne Michaels productions. Her transition to a dramatic-comedy role in HBO's Rooster in 2026 marked an expansion into prestige television.

External links

• Bridesmaids movie clips on snip.ninja