Cheri Oteri

Cheryl "Cheri" Ann Oteri (/oʊˈtɛri/; born September 19, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. A Primetime Emmy Award nominee, she is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000.

She played librarian Helen Klench in Mitch Hurwitz's show, Sit Down, Shut Up, as well as Connie Carmichael in the Fairly OddParents, and Miss Flap in Bunsen is a Beast, two Nicktoons created by Butch Hartman.

Oteri was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. She grew up with three siblings in Upper Darby (also the hometown of Tina Fey, another SNL alumna). She went to Archbishop Prendergast High School (on the same campus as Monsignor Bonner High School).

Career[]

After moving to Los Angeles at age 25, she worked at A&M Records for four years and eventually joined the famed comedy troupe The Groundlings. It was there that she was noticed by SNL and was hired in 1995 as part of an almost entirely new cast brought in to save the show after its disastrous 1994 season.

Oteri would form a third of the so-called "SNL female power trio" that also included Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer and which was responsible, along with Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond and others, for bringing SNL out of its slump.

Oteri left SNL in 2000. She has appeared in several Hollywood movies including Scary Movie, Inspector Gadget, Liar Liar, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, Shrek the Third and Southland Tales. She starred in two TV pilots that did not make it to air, Loomis and With You in Spirit.

She has also made guest appearances on Just Shoot Me!, Strangers with Candy and as an emotionally unstable nanny on Curb Your Enthusiasm. She has also been working with Lost creator J.J. Abrams on a sitcom idea.

In 2009, Oteri became a regular voice cast in the short-lived Fox comedy series, Sit Down, Shut Up, where she voiced Helen Klench, the unappreciated librarian who often gets mistaken for objects such as brooms or toilet brushes.

In 2016, Oteri did voicework on the tenth and currently final season of Nickelodeon's long-running cartoon series, the Fairly OddParents, where she voiced Connie Carmichael, the mother of the new main character, Chloe Carmichael.

In 2017, Oteri did voicework on the short-lived Nicktoon Bunsen is a Beast, where she voiced Mikey Munroe's teacher Miss Flap.

Other voice roles such as, Disney's Hercules, Shrek The Third, The Ant Bully, The Life and Times of Tim, Home: Adventures with Tip and Oh, The Tom and Jerry Show, Big City Greens, Lionsgate's Nutri Ventures, Kid Cosmic, J.G. Quintel's Close Enough, The 7D, The Boss Baby: Back in Business, Where's Waldo, Fairfax, Inside Job, later in a upcoming reboot of an untitled The Powerpuff Girls animated series and more.

Family[]

On April 26, 2008, Oteri's 69-year-old father, Gaetano Thomas "Tom" Oteri, was murdered in his Nashville, Tennessee home. His roommate, country music songwriter Richard Fagan was charged with the murder. During an alcohol-fueled argument, police allege that Oteri was stabbed in the wrist of his right arm by Fagan with the four- to six-inch blade of a pocket knife, after which he bled to death. After leaving the residence in his automobile, Fagan was stopped and arrested by the police on a drunk driving charge. Authorities believe that Fagan did not realize that the wound he had given his roommate had been fatal, and even phoned a friend from jail to check in on Oteri. Fagan waived his right to a hearing. His bail was set at $20,000 and was ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation center.

Characters/Impressions[]

Characters[]

Althea McMahonaman, an absurdly hyper child bus passenger
Arianna, a member of The Spartan Cheerleaders (with Will Ferrell)
Cass Van Rye, the dim-witted co-host of the "Morning Latte" talk show (with Will Ferrell)
Collette Reardon, a prescription pill-addict.
Mickey "The Dyke", a butch cable access television host (with Mark McKinney)
Nadeen, a testy employee who constantly orders everyone to "Simmer down now!"
Rita DelVecchio, a grouchy Queens resident who was mean to the neighbourhood children.