Kristen Joy Schaal (/ʃɑːl/; born January 24, 1978) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, and writer. She is best known for her voice roles as Louise Belcher on Bob's Burgers and Mabel Pines on Gravity Falls, as well as for playing Mel on Flight of the Conchords, Hurshe Heartshe on The Heart, She Holler and Carol Pilbasian on The Last Man on Earth. She provides several voices for BoJack Horseman, most notably for the character of Sarah Lynn, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Other roles include Amanda Simmons on The Hotwives of Orlando, Hazel Wassername on 30 Rock, Victoria Best on WordGirl, Trixie in the Toy Story franchise, and Anne on Wilfred. She was an occasional commentator on The Daily Show from 2008 to 2016. She voiced Sayrna in the 2019 EA video game, Anthem. Schaal was born in Longmont, Colorado, to a Lutheran family of Dutch ancestry. She was raised on her family's cattle ranch, in a rural area near Boulder, Colorado. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a secretary. Schaal attended Skyline High School where she graduated in 1996. She has a brother, David, who is three years older. She graduated from Northwestern University and then moved to New York in 2000 to pursue a comedy career. In 2005, she had her first break when she was included in the New York article "The Ten Funniest New Yorkers You've Never Heard Of". This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
65 movies · 79 shows
Toy Story 5
2026·7.4
Andy Kaufman Is Me
2025·0.0
My Spy The Eternal City
2024·6.5
Thelma the Unicorn
2024·6.9
The Bob's Burgers Movie
2022·6.9
My Butt Has a Fever
2022·8.7
Seal Team
2021·6.9
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020·5.9
My Spy
2020·6.9
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
2019·5.9
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
2019·6.4
Toy Story 4
2019·7.5
It Started As a Joke
2019·4.8
One Crazy Summer: A Look Back at Gravity Falls
2018·8.2
Boundaries
2018·5.6
Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special
2017·5.9
Austin Found
2017·5.5
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
2017·6.3
Literally, Right Before Aaron
2017·4.8
All Nighter
2017·5.7
The Boss
2016·5.8
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
2016·5.3
Gravity Falls: Between the Pines
2016·7.7
The Comments
2015·7.0
A Walk in the Woods
2015·6.1
Marcel, Marcel
2015·0.0
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014·7.1
Toy Story of Terror!
2013·7.2
Gravity Falls: Six Strange Tales
2013·8.4
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013·6.5
Despicable Me 2
2013·6.9
RiffTrax Live: Night of the Shorts - SF Sketchfest 2013
2013·7.0
Welcome to the Jungle
2013·5.0
Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore
2013·6.4
Eugene Mirman: An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory
2012·5.2
Butter
2012·5.9
Sleepwalk with Me
2012·6.5
FOX 25th Anniversary Special
2012·7.8
The Muppets
2011·6.7
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011·6.5
Hawaiian Vacation
2011·7.0
Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!
2011·0.0
Scared Shrekless
2010·6.7
Going the Distance
2010·6.1
Dinner for Schmucks
2010·5.7
Toy Story 3
2010·7.8
Get Him to the Greek
2010·6.0
Shrek Forever After
2010·6.4
Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge
2010·5.0
Valentine's Day
2010·5.9
When in Rome
2010·5.9
Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole
2010·0.0
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009·5.9
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
2009·5.4
Snake 'n' Bacon
2009·0.0
Flight of the Conchords: On Air
2009·8.5
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008·0.0
FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
2007·4.5
Delirious
2007·6.4
Norbit
2007·5.7
Adam & Steve
2005·5.5
From Other Worlds
2004·3.9
Poster Boy
2004·5.4
Kate & Leopold
2001·6.3
Hello Kitty’s Paradise: Learn With Love
1999·7.0