Best Female Saturday Night Live Cast Members

The Top Ten
1 Gilda Radner Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress. She was best remembered as an original cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.
2 Amy Poehler Amy Poehler is an American actress, comedian, director, producer, and writer. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she became part of the Chicago-based improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade.
3 Tina Fey Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She is best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.
4 Kristen Wiig Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She is known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, and films such as Bridesmaids, The Martian, and Ghostbusters.
5 Molly Shannon
6 Jane Curtin
7 Ana Gasteyer
8 Maya Rudolph Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress, comedian, and musician. She rose to prominence on the NBC television show Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member from 2000 to 2007. She has also starred in films such as Idiocracy, Away We Go, Grown Ups, Bridesmaids, Grown Ups 2, and Sisters.
9 Rachel Dratch Rachel Susan Dratch is an American actress, comedian, producer, and writer. Born and raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, she graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988 and moved to Chicago, Illinois, to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic.
10 Cecily Strong Cecily Legler Strong is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian, known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, having joined the show in 2012.

She is probably the most underrated female cast member in the show right now. She is just as good as Kate McKinnon (and sometimes even better) and people don't seem to give her enough credit. Give. This. Girl. An. Emmy.

The Contenders
11 Jan Hooks Janet Vivian "Jan" Hooks was an American actress and comedian best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986–91, and continued making cameo appearances until 1994. Her subsequent work included a regular role on the final two seasons of Designing Women, a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun and a number of other roles in film and television.
12 Kate McKinnon Kathryn McKinnon Berthold, commonly known as Kate McKinnon, is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian.
13 Cheri Oteri
14 Victoria Jackson
15 Nora Dunn
16 Laraine Newman
17 Ellen Cleghorne
18 Vanessa Bayer
19 Julia Sweeney
20 Leslie Jones
21 Melanie Hutsell
22 Mary Gross
23 Aidy Bryant
24 Sasheer Zamata
25 Abby Elliott Abby Elliott is an American actress and comedian best known for her four seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for co-starring on the Bravo series Odd Mom Out.
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