Way to go!
The Emmy Award nominees were announced on Tuesday, and Dorchester native Ayo Edebiri is nominated for her role as Sydney in the critically acclaimed series The Bear! This is the second year in a row!
The third season of The Bear is currently streaming on Hulu! Edebiri won the Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award last year! for this role.
Edebiri’s parents were immigrants—her mother is from Barbados, and her father is Nigerian—who settled in Dorchester. The 28-year-old actress told the Globe she attended St. Margaret School and sang in the choir of her church. In seventh grade, she went on to attend the prestigious Boston Latin School. From there, Edebiri went to New York University’s Tisch School of the Art, where she graduated with a writing degree. While at NYU, she was also part of an improv group and started performing stand-up.
After college, Edebiri continued with stand-up and put her writing degree to good use. She worked on the FX vampire comedy “What We Do in the Shadows,” Netflix’s animated sitcom “Big Mouth,” and the Apple TV+ comedy-drama “Dickinson.”
From there, the director of “Dickinson,” Christopher Storer, was casting his new show called “The Bear” about a young chef from the fine dining world who comes home to Chicago to run his family’s struggling sandwich shop after the tragic death of his brother. Edebiri auditioned for the role of Sydney and got it.
Tune in and watch!
You can see Edebiri on with late night host Seth Myers chatting about the Great Molasses Flood.
Maureen Dahill is the editor of Caught in Southie and a lifelong resident of South Boston sometimes mistaken for a yuppie. Co-host of Caught Up, storyteller, lover of red wine and binge watching TV series. Mrs. Peter G. Follow her @MaureenCaught.
