Riki Lindhome

Erika "Riki" Lindhome (born is a native of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, and raised in Portville, New York. She is primarily of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. Lindhome graduated from Portville High School in 1997. She majored in communications and film at Syracuse University, where she graduated in 2000.

In 1997, Lindhome won first prize in the JFK Profiles in Courage essay contest awarded by the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. Her subject was United States Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), whose outrage at the murder of her husband during the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting compelled her to challenge and win the seat held by her congressman, who had voted to repeal the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

Career

Acting

Without an agent, Lindhome started her acting career with a role in a short film Backseat Detour (as a backseat passenger), and as Charlie in the sitcom Titus. In a season seven episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer she was the crutches-using student Cheryl in 2002. In 2003, she joined The Actors' Gang and appeared in the play Embedded in two roles (a commedia dell'arte of Condoleezza Rice, and a reporter) and was one of four actors from the play to be cast in the 2004 Academy Award-winning film Million Dollar Baby, where she played Mardell Fitzgerald, the trailer-living sister of Maggie, the film's lead.

Lindhome briefly appeared as a nameless inquisitive student in a season three episode of the television series Gilmore Girls in 2002 before later guest-starring as calorie-counter Juliet on the show's fifth and sixth seasons. She also appeared as Janelle in the 2006 techno-horror film Pulse and as a cruel nurse in the 2008 crime drama film Changeling. She guest-starred on the television series The Big Bang Theory as Ramona Nowitzki, a controlling graduate student obsessed with Sheldon Cooper, in seasons two, ten and eleven (2008, 2017). She guest-starred in the television series Pushing Daisies as the pie-loving Jeanine. In 2008, she played Hilary, a devout Christian girl who has a purposely disastrous date with Dane Cook in My Best Friend's Girl; and had a minor role as murder victim Vanessa Holden on the crime drama series Criminal Minds. In 2009, she starred as the vicious, amoral Sadie in The Last House on the Left, a remake of the 1972 horror film of the same name.

In 2011, Lindhome was featured alongside Heather Morris, Sofía Vergara and Ashley Lendzion in "Nuthin' But a Glee Thang", a Glee-themed Funny or Die parody of the Dr. Dre song "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang". From 2010 to 2013, she developed and hosted the Nerdist podcast Making It with Riki Lindhome, interviewing people in the entertainment industry about their rise to fame. From 2011 to 2013, she guest-starred as Harper on the HBO television series Enlightened. In 2013, she starred in the horror-comedy film Hell Baby as Marjorie, the protagonist's Wiccan sister, a role for which she did a full frontal nude scene that attracted attention for being unusually lengthy.

In 2015, Lindhome and Natasha Leggero created the Comedy Central series Another Period, in which Lindhome also starred as Beatrice Bellacourt. The show, which focuses on the Bellacourts, a fictional aristocratic family living in Newport, Rhode Island at the turn of the 20th century, premiered in June 2015. She had a recurring role on the television series The Muppets in 2015 as Becky, Fozzie Bear's human girlfriend. Also in 2015, she appeared in a season two episode of Fresh Off the Boat as Arielle, a resort masseuse, and Agneta, a Swedish Detective in Brooklyn Nine-Nines season three episode "The Swedes". She voiced Poison Ivy in the 2017 animated film The Lego Batman Movie. alt=Riki Lindhome, musician and actress, at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Riki Lindhome at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2018, Lindhome guest-starred as Shaina, a recovering drug addict, in an episode of the comedy-drama television series Kidding., and later in 2018, Lindhome played "The Actress" who has casual sex with the "aimless" Sam in the neo-noir black comedy Under the Silver Lake. In October 2019, she was featured in SoulPancake's short documentary film Laughing Matters. The next month, she appeared in the ensemble cast of the 2019 mystery film Knives Out as faithful wife Donna Thrombey. She began starring in the Fox animated sitcom series Duncanville in February 2020, voicing the character Kimberly Harris, the emotional 12-year-old sister of the protagonist, Duncan Harris. In October 2020, she starred in the comedy thriller film The Wolf of Snow Hollow, directed by Jim Cummings, as sympathetic yet professional local police officer Julia Robson.

In 2022, she voiced Royal Assistant Beep Beep in the Warner Brothers animated comedy film King Tweety, and starred as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, Wednesday Addams's strict but understanding court-ordered therapist, in the Netflix comedy horror series Wednesday.

In 2023, she guest-starred as Justine the Belieber, a fan of Justin Bieber who steals Dr. Teeth's van in Disney's The Muppets Mayhem.

In 2024, she appeared as Maud in the horror film Afraid.

Music

Lindhome performs as "Garfunkel" in the comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates, with her friend and fellow songwriter Kate Micucci.

In August 2024, Lindhome premiered a one-woman musical called "Dead Inside" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She brought the musical to the US and in July 2025 performed it at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC.

Personal life Lindhome has a son, who was born via surrogate in March 2022; she is unable to give birth due to silent endometriosis. She has been married to Fred Armisen since June 1, 2022.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2001 Backseat Detour Catie Short film 2004 Seeing Other People Girl Kissing Ed UncreditedMillion Dollar Baby Mardell Fitzgerald 2005 All In Marsha Embedded Gondola / Journalist Video Berkeley Fighting Girl 2006Pulse Janelle Life is Short Lilly Short film 2008 Wednesday Again Carli Changeling Examination Nurse My Best Friend's Girl Hilary 2009 The Last House on the Left Sadie Powder Blue Nicole Say Hello to Stan Talmadge Polly Talmadge Imaginary Larry Betsy Short film 2011 A Good Funeral Polly 2012 Much Ado About Nothing Conrade Fun Size Denise / Galaxy Scout 2013 Hell Baby Marjorie 2014 Search Party Singer at Weddings 2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Popsicle Voice 2016 Nerdland Linda Voice 2017 The Lego Batman Movie Poison IvyVoice

Discography

Yell at Me from Your Car EP (2011) No Worries If Not (2025)