Erika "Riki" Lindhome (born March 5, 1979) is an American actress, comedian and musician. She is best known as a singer and songwriter for the comedy folk duo Garfunkel and Oates with Kate Micucci.
Without an agent, Lindhome started her acting career with a role on a short film "Backseat Detour" (as a backseat passenger), and Charlie on the sitcomTitus. In a season seven episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer she was the crutches-using student Cheryl in 2002. In 2003, she joined The Actors' Gang and appeared in the play Embedded in two roles (a commedia dell'arte of Condoleezza Rice, and a reporter) and was one of four actors from the play to be cast in the 2004 Academy Award-winning film Million Dollar Baby, where she played Mardell Fitzgerald, the trailer-living sister of Maggie, the film's lead.[7][better source needed]
Lindhome briefly appeared as a nameless inquisitive student in a season three episode of the television series Gilmore Girls in 2002 before later guest-starring as calorie-counter Juliet on the show's fifth and sixth seasons.[8][9] She also appeared as Janelle in the 2006 techno-horror film Pulse and as a cruel nurse in the 2008 crime drama film Changeling.[10][11] She guest-starred on the television series The Big Bang Theory as Ramona Nowitzki, a controlling graduate student obsessed with Sheldon Cooper, in seasons two, ten and eleven (2008, 2017).[12] She guest-starred in the television series Pushing Daisies as the pie-loving Jeanine. In 2008, she played Hilary, a devout Christian girl who has a purposely disastrous date with Dane Cook in My Best Friend's Girl; and had a minor role as murder victim Vanessa Holden on the crime drama series Criminal Minds.[13] In 2009, she starred as the vicious, amoral Sadie in The Last House on the Left, a remake of the 1972 horror film of the same name.[14]
In 2011, Lindhome was featured alongside Heather Morris, Sofía Vergara and Ashley Lendzion in "Nuthin' But a Glee Thang", a Glee-themed Funny or Die parody of the Dr. Dre song "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang".[15] From 2010 to 2013, she developed and hosted the Nerdist podcast Making It with Riki Lindhome, interviewing people in the entertainment industry about their rise to fame.[16][17] From 2011 to 2013, she guest-starred as Harper on the HBO television series Enlightened.[18] She played a female version of Conrade, one of Don John's followers with whom he has a steamy relationship in Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, and appeared as the "Galaxy Scout" costume-wearing Denise in the 2012 comedy film Fun Size.[19][20] In 2013, she starred in the horror-comedy film Hell Baby as Marjorie, the protagonist's Wiccan sister, a role for which she did a full frontal nude scene that attracted attention for being unusually lengthy.[18][21]
Riki Lindhome at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2018, Lindhome guest-starred as Shaina, a recovering drug addict, in an episode of the comedy-drama television series Kidding.,[29] and later in 2018, Lindhome played "The Actress" who has casual sex with the "aimless" Sam in the neo-noir black comedy Under the Silver Lake. In October 2019, she was featured in SoulPancake's short documentary film Laughing Matters.[30] The next month, she appeared in the ensemble cast of the 2019 mystery filmKnives Out as faithful wife Donna Thrombey.[31] She began starring in the Foxanimated sitcom series Duncanville in February 2020, voicing the character Kimberly Harris, the emotional 12-year-old sister of the protagonist, Duncan Harris.[32][33] In October 2020, she starred in the comedy thriller filmThe Wolf of Snow Hollow, directed by Jim Cummings, as sympathetic yet professional local police officer Julia Robson.[34][35]
In 2022, she voiced Royal Assistant Beep Beep in the Warner Brothers animated comedy film "King Tweety", and starred as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Wednesday Addams's strict but understanding court-ordered therapist, in the Netflix comedy horror series Wednesday.[36]
In 2023, she guest-starred as Justine the Belieber, a fan of Justin Bieber who steals Dr. Teeth's van in Disney's The Muppets Mayhem.
In 2024, she appeared as Maud in the horror film Afraid.[37][38]
As of November 2021[update], Lindhome will write the script for the upcoming animated musical film Steps; she will also executive-produce, and will co-write the lyrics with Micucci.[40]
Personal life
Lindhome has a son, who was born via surrogate in March 2022.[41] She has been married to Fred Armisen since June 1, 2022.[42][43]
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