Who is retta on parks and rec

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Narrator voice. Retta also revealed that Ansari was often very busy because his stand up comedic skills put him in high demand. However, the pair ended up bonding over their colorful characters and the sheer amount of time they spent filming together on the set of Parks and Rec. One episode that really bonded them came in the fourth season of Parks and Rec. In fact, many people still reference it today. I feel like that was my first full storyline. We just hung out all day together. She even ended up creating one of the show's most memorable lines, " treat yo self ," which has taken on a life of its own and even earned Retta free lunches from her friends.

By the end of the show, every single person in the office knows how self-aware and undeniably cool Donna is, even though they still don't know everything about her especially since she "disappears" to her Seattle hideaway every now and then just to maintain an air of mystery.

Since this is Parks and Recreation , everybody got a truly happy ending during the finale — including Donna, who marries her longtime love Joe Keegan-Michael Key and uses her recently earned real-estate fortune to help support struggling school systems. Retta's time on Parks and Recreation led to several other television gigs, making her a familiar face — and voice — on the small screen. In the immediate aftermath of Parks ' finale in , Retta appeared on series like The Kroll Show , which she had previously been on in She then shifted her attention to voice-acting, lending her distinctive pipes to the animated web series Pinky Malinky as Mrs.

Malinky and the kids' cartoon Where's Waldo? Netflix subscribers will probably recognize Retta's voice on one of the streamer's most popular original series: Big Mouth , on which Retta voiced Duke's mother. While those projects were fairly exciting, Retta's first big post- Parks gig was on a buzzy Bravo series. Though the network is most known for its reality TV franchises like The Real Housewives , Bravo began offering up some solid scripted shows in Right as Parks and Recreation came to a close, Retta dipped her toe into Bravo's waters with a recurring role on Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce , based on a series of novels by Vicki Iovine.

The show starred House 's Lisa Edelstein as Abby McCarthy, a self-help author who gets unexpected assistance from her girlfriends as she faces down her own divorce. Tired of SheShe 's focus on clickbait articles and fluffy content, the two eventually join forces to start their own business venture, Lady Parts , which kicks off during the show's fourth season.

Retta remained a regular on the show, working alongside Abby until the series came to a close after its fifth season in The trio lead NBC's Good Girls , a comedy-drama about a group of suburban moms who turn to crime to support their families. As the show opens, the women decide to rob a supermarket together, devising what they think is a foolproof plan.