Ayo Edebiri

Ayo Edebiri stars as Catherine in Proof on Broadway from March 31, 2026.

Edebiri is best known for starring as Sydney on the FX/Hulu series The Bear, winning a 2023 Emmy Award for her performance and earning two additional acting nominations in 2024 and 2025, plus one more in 2025 for directing the episode "Napkins." She has also won a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her work on the show.

Also among Edebiri's best-known credits are the Netflix series Big Mouth and the films Bottoms, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Inside Out 2, and Theater Camp, in which she appeared alongside stage veterans like Ben Platt, Noah Galvin, and Molly Gordon.

Edebiri is also a screenwriter who has penned episodes of What We Do in the Shadows, Dickinson, and Mulligan.