Michaela Watkins is an American actress and comedian. After several years performing with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Watkins achieved widespread attention for her brief stint as a featured player on the NBC sketch comedy series
Saturday Night Live during its 34th season between 2008 and 2009. Since leaving
SNL, she has starred on the Hulu series
Casual and on the short-lived sitcoms
The Unicorn and
Trophy Wife. Watkins has also had recurring roles on other television series, such as
The New Adventures of Old Christine,
Catastrophe,
Enlightened and
Search Party and appeared in films such as
The Back-up Plan (2010),
Wanderlust (2012),
Enough Said (2013) and
Sword of Trust (2019).