40 interesting facts about Amy Poehler: She co-founded a comedy theater, favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox

Amy Poehler is a talented actress and comedian famous for her work on Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation.

1. Her full name is Amy Meredith Poehler.

2. She was born September 16, 1971 in Burlington, Massachusetts.

3. Her parents are Eileen and William Poehler, both schoolteachers. She said since both her parents were teachers, she grew up having great respect for school and enjoyed it very much.

4. Her father has German, Irish, Portuguese, and English ancestry, and her mother has Irish ancestry.

5. At Boston College, the petite (5-foot 2-inch) Poehler became a member of the college's improvisational comedy troupe, My Mother's Fleabag.

6. Some of her nicknames include Cool Cat Amy, Crazy Amy and Poehlercoaster.

7. When she was a teenager, she worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. "We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing "Happy Birthday" to people while giving them free birthday sundaes," she said.

8. Amy Poehler was first involved with sketch comedy when she joined the group My Mother's Flea Bag when she was attending Boston College.

9. In 1993, she went to Chicago where she studied at Second City and Improv Olympics.

10. In 1996, she moved to New York City after becoming part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, which later developed into an eponymous television show that aired on Comedy Central for three seasons.

11. In the 90s, she appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" playing Andy Richter's younger sister, who had a psychotic crush on Conan.

12. Amy Poehler was one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 1999. The other founding members were Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh.

13. Later on, the group moved to New York and became a Comedy Central show. The show went on only for three seasons. However, the group stayed together at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. Today, the theater is one of the leading centers for improv and sketch shows.

14. She starred in Mean Girls as Rachel McAdams self-obsessed mother although she is only seven years older than her.

15. Amy has the rare distinction of being in two movies that opened on the same day in the U.S. - "Mean Girls" and "Envy" (April 30, 2004).

16. On the big screen, she seemed to make an impression despite her small roles. In Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, she played a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer, and in Wet Hot American Summer she was a snobby drama club leader.

17. Her big break came when she became a cast member on the NBC television show Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 2001 to 2008.

18. The actress made her "SNL" cast member debut on the first show after 9/11.

19. Landing a gig on "SNL" isn't easy, but Poehler managed to be promoted from bit player to full cast member in her first season -- the first woman to do so.

20. She has twice been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for her work on Saturday Night Live, in both 2008 and 2009.

21. Amy Poehler had a recurring character in two episodes of the college dramedy Undeclared. She appears in the film Southland Tales, which premiered on May 21, 2006, at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

22. Poehler married actor Will Arnett on August 29, 2003, and had a recurring role on the series Arrested Development as the wife of Arnett's character Gob Bluth.

23. In 2004, she became the co-anchor of the Weekend Update sketch along with her friend and colleague Tina Fey. Poehler's work on SNL earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

24. She has brought a slew of great performances on every SNL show, such as impersonations of celebrities such as Kelly Ripa or Sharon Osbourne.

25. On October 25, 2008, Poehler gave birth to her first child, Archibald William "Archie" Emerson Arnett, just hours before a Saturday Night Live telecast.

26. In 2008, she reunited with Tina Fey to play the freewheeling surrogate mother to a high-strung, career-oriented woman (Fey) who desperately wants a baby in the movie Baby Mama.

27. She gave birth to her second son, Abel James Arnett, on August 6, 2010.

28. However, in September 2012, Poehler and Arnett announced that they were ending their nine-year marriage.

29. She is best friends with Tina Fey and Seth Meyers.

30. In 2011, Poehler was included on TIME's "100 most influential people in the world"

31. She also delivered the Class Day address to Harvard University's class of 2011.

32. Despite being a celebrity and tv comedian, she still likes to be down to earth and appears on YouTube with her Amy Poehler's Smart Girls series, where she interviews interesting women and answers questions from fans.

33. Amy Poehler's favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox.

34. Poehler co-created and provides the voice of the main character on the Nickelodeon animated kids' series The Mighty B. She received a 2009 Daytime Emmy nomination for her voice work on the show.

35. .Poehler's popularity continued to rise with her tv sitcom Parks and Recreation. The tv show was introduced in 2009, the popular comedy series follows Leslie Knope (Poehler), a mid-level bureaucrat working for the parks department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.

36. Amy Poehler's salary per episode on Parks And Recreation is $200,000.

37. She is a fan of the rap group, Bone Thugs n Harmony.

38. She currently lives in TriBeCa in New York City with her two sons.

39. Amy Poehler's net worth is $18 million.

40. In 2014, she won the Golden Globe for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Parks and Recreation.