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The actress, writer, and comedian has wowed viewers of TV’s \u2018Veep,\u2019 the hit movie Step Brothers<\/em>, and a whole lot more<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savage has racked up dozens of credits over a long career in TV and film. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Andrea Savage \u201994 has a sure-fire way to win an argument at home. \u201cI always say to my family, \u2018Technically, I am<\/em> the President of the United States of America, so just shut up,\u2019\u201d Savage says with a laugh. \u201cI do like to lord that over them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A prolific actress and comedy writer, Savage was sworn in to the nation\u2019s highest office during her eight-episode run on the hit sitcom \u201cVeep.\u201d She played U.S. Senator Laura Montez, who outmaneuvered protagonist Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to become the country\u2019s first female president. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Savage\u2019s character is a savvy politician from a New England WASP background who, having married into a Hispanic family from New Mexico, assumes an ostentatiously Latinx identity for electoral gain\u2014pronouncing her first name as \u201cLOW<\/em>-rah,\u201d with a comically over-trilled \u201cr.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bit was something Savage had developed during her audition, which included improvising with Louis-Dreyfus; it didn\u2019t hurt that she\u2019d studied abroad in Seville her junior year at Cornell. \u201cI started throwing in some Spanish words and over-enunciating them in an aggressive way,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI do think that actually being able to speak Spanish\u2014and my accent is decent when I want it to be\u2014was a very good thing to have in my back pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savage snapped this selfie on the Oval Office set while shooting “Veep.” (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cVeep\u201d is just one of Savage\u2019s dozens of credits<\/a> stretching back to the mid-1990s. On TV she has had recurring roles as everything from a Brazilian exchange student (\u201cSweet Valley High\u201d) to an undead CEO (\u201ciZombie\u201d) to a ruthless but sympathetic Hollywood executive (\u201cEpisodes\u201d); she has guest-starred on \u201cThe West Wing,\u201d \u201cCold Case,\u201d \u201cTwo and a Half Men,\u201d \u201cModern Family,\u201d \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm,\u201d and many more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her movie roles include Will Ferrell\u2019s therapist and love interest in Step Brothers<\/em> as well as appearances in Dinner for Schmucks<\/em>, Sleeping with Other People<\/em>, and the 2022 Netflix release Plus\/Minus<\/em>, costarring Lili Reinhart and Luke Wilson.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Among Savage’s other upcoming projects are an untitled Netflix comedy film starring Jonah Hill and a voice role in the animated show “The Freak Brothers” for the streaming service Tubi. Her writing credits include episodes of the HBO sketch comedy show \u201cFunny or Die Presents\u201d and a satirical short\u2014a mock political commercial about abortion rights released in the 2012 presidential election year\u2014she also directed and co-starred in with Kate Beckinsale and Judy Greer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Californian at Cornell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Los Angeles native who \u201cdidn\u2019t know how to put on a scarf\u201d when faced with her first Ithaca chill, Savage majored in government on the Hill. \u201cBut I did a lot of theater while I was there,\u201d she says. \u201cI was kind of a secret theater person with a more grounded, realistic major.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was during her time abroad in Seville\u2014with some space from her usual academic life\u2014that she resolved to pursue a career in entertainment; she vividly recalls breaking the news to her adviser back on campus. \u201cHer face sort of went blank, and there was this uncomfortable silence for about 30 seconds, and we just stared at each other,\u201d Savage says. \u201cAnd then she was like, \u2018Okay, well, after<\/em> that, do you think you\u2019re more interested in law school or business school?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was kind of a secret theater person with a more grounded, realistic major.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Back home in L.A., Savage took classes at the Groundlings (the famed improv school and performance troupe) and tried to break into the business. \u201cI definitely had dark days where I was like, \u2018Screw everybody, I\u2019m going to law school,\u2019\u201d she recalls with a laugh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut for the most part, I felt like I always had some forward momentum. And I hustled and worked really hard; I attacked the entertainment industry in an organized, very academic fashion. I submitted my pictures and got into student films; I did a blind mailer for a commercial agent and got one. I think I had a strange amount of confidence that probably wasn\u2019t\u2014that I know<\/em> wasn\u2019t\u2014justified, that pushed me through, especially in the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her own TV show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, TruTV debuted \u201cI\u2019m Sorry<\/a>,\u201d a comedy series that Savage created, wrote, and starred in. (The show is currently available for streaming on HBO Max.) She plays a comically overblown version of herself: her protagonist is a comedy writer named Andrea (who, like Savage, is married with a daughter and lives in L.A.), who navigates a variety of personal and professional crises, often of her own making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savage\u2019s TV husband\u2014doting, but every inch her comic foil\u2014is played by Tom Everett Scott; Kathy Baker and Martin Mull portray her parents. \u201cIt\u2019s very much based on me and my life; all the characters are based on real people and real relationships,\u201d Savage explains. \u201cBut it is, let\u2019s say, 30 percent exaggerated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Savage’s TV family in “I’m Sorry” includes Tom Everett Scott (rear) as her husband, Kathy Baker (left) as her mom, and Olive Petrucci (right) as her daughter. (Photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The show is edgy and unabashedly raunchy; the fictional Andrea is whip-smart and often a tad too clever for her own good. In one episode, she cracks so many (very funny) off-color jokes to her fellow parents at student pick-up time, her daughter\u2019s school institutes a policy against salty language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another, she finds herself in a parenting quandary when, after showing her five-year-old The Sound of Music<\/em>\u2014a film she vaguely recalls as entirely benign\u2014the little girl becomes terrified that Nazis are hiding in her closet. (It only gets worse when Andrea, scrambling for a way to explain the Third Reich to a preschooler, tells her that Hitler was like Voldemort in Harry Potter<\/em>, only real.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI admire Andrea\u2019s comic vision in \u2018I\u2019m Sorry,\u2019\u201d says David Feldshuh, a professor of performing and media arts who taught Savage as an undergrad, and who himself is a Pulitzer-nominated playwright. \u201cIt\u2019s unpredictable, irreverent, and edgy, but also grounded in attention to credible detail from everyday life. Without trying to teach or preach, Andrea shows us something about our contemporary comedy of manners\u2014what we try to hide and what won\u2019t be hidden. And it\u2019s laugh-out-loud funny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without trying to teach or preach, Andrea shows us something about our contemporary comedy of manners\u2014what we try to hide and what won\u2019t be hidden.<\/p>Professor David Feldshuh<\/strong>, on Savage\u2019s show \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After two seasons and twenty episodes, \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d is in limbo. Shooting on season three was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and\u2014despite good reviews and a solid fan base\u2014due to upheaval at TruTV, production may never restart. As Savage explains, the concept for \u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d sprang from a point in her career familiar to many actresses in their 40s: she found herself constantly being offered lackluster, one-dimensional roles as the stereotypical \u201cmom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018Why are none of these funny? They\u2019re all harried and sexless. No one in these relationships seems to like each other,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cAnd I thought, \u2018I\u2019ve got some stories that I think would be funny in the retelling. And I want to show that a woman who\u2019s 40, who happens to be a mom\u2014one, it\u2019s not the only thing that defines her. But also, you can still be funny and edgy, have a good marriage and enjoy parenting, and be dirty\u2014to be all the things that I still am, and my friends still are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published November 8, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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