Retta Biography
Retta is a stand-up comedian and actress from the United States best known for her appearances on NBC’s Good Girls and Parks and Recreation. She has appeared in a number of films and television shows, as well as on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend.
How old is Retta? – Age
She is 53 years old as of 12 April 2023. She was born Marietta Sangai Sirleaf in 1970 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Retta Family
Retta is the niece of former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Retta Husband
She revealed that she dated a man from Georgia who nicknamed her Retta because that’s how the name Marietta sounded where he was from.
Retta Career
She worked as a chemist after graduating from Duke. In her spare time, she performed stand-up comedy at Raleigh’s Charlie Goodnights Comedy Club. She eventually relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a comedy career. Rather than explaining her name, she decided to call herself. She began performing standup in 1996, although she did not begin “earning money” until 1998 when she began traveling on the college circuit. She admitted that she used to feel “really nauseated” before a performance, but that the sensation faded with time. Retta has stated that her stand-up material consists of slightly embellished stories from her daily life, family, and friends.
She has opened for comedians including Shirley Hemphill and Bobby Collins. She has appeared on Bravo’s Welcome to the Parker, E! Entertainment Television’s The Soup, Freddie, Moesha, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the “Comedy Divas Showcase” portion of The Jenny Jones Show, Freddie, Moesha, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Freddie, Moesha, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,[ Freddie, Mo she has appeared on Premium Blend, a Comedy Central show that features upcoming comedians. Retta began appearing as Donna Meagle, an employee in the Parks Department of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation in 2009. Retta stated during a stand-up performance at the University of Illinois at Springfield that the acting role on the show was difficult because it was unknown how long the show would be on the air.
In 2013, she hosted the third Critics’ Choice Television Awards. She competed as a participant in Hollywood Game Night in 2014. Retta was one of the audiobook narrators for Welcome to Night Vale, a novel based on the eponymous podcast series in which she voices Old Woman Josie, in 2015. She appeared in season 2 of Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce the same year. She co-starred in the NBC sitcom Good Girls in 2018, alongside Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman. She published a collection of articles in a book called So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know in 2018. where she discusses her weight loss journey Retta inked a talent-holding agreement with NBCUniversal in 2022.
Retta Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Retta Movies and TV Shows
MOVIES:
♦ 2019 – Good Boys
♦ 2017 – To the Bone
♦ 2017 – Band-Aid
♦ 2017 – The Lego Ninjago Movie
♦ 2017 – Where’s the Money
♦ 2017 – Father Figures
♦ 2016 – Other People
♦ 2016 – Operator
♦ 2016 – Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
♦ 2015 – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
♦ 2014 – Sex Ed
♦ 2008 – First Sunday
♦ 2007 – Fracture
Retta TV Shows
♦ 2020 – DuckTales
♦ 2020 – Home Movie: The Princess Bride
♦ 2019 – Pinky Malinky
♦ 2019 – Where’s Waldo?
♦ 2019 – Big Mouth
♦ 2018-present – Good Girls
♦ 2015–18 – Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce
♦ 2015 – Kroll Show
♦ 2014 – Kroll Show
♦ 2014 – Drunk History
♦ 2014 – Key & Peele
♦ 2009–15, 2020 – Parks and Recreation
♦ 2009 – Jimmy Kimmel Live!
♦ 2008 – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia-Retta Biography