Comic actress Amy Poehler to speak at Harvard College Class Day 2011

The comic actress's credits include Parks and Recreation and Saturday Night Live.

Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler | Photograph by Mary Ellen Matthews

Comic actress Amy Poehler will be the Senior Class Day speaker on May 25. Currently a star of the NBC series Parks and Recreation, Poehler previously spent eight years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, where in one skit during the 2008 electoral campaign, she famously played then-Senator Hillary Clinton opposite Tina Fey's rendition of then-Governor Sarah Palin. Poehler also acted in the 2004 film comedy Mean Girls.

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