Aisha Tyler Biography
Aisha Tyler (Aisha Nilaja Tyler) is an award-winning American actress, director, comedian, and talk show host. Additionally, she is known for playing Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer, Dr. Tara Lewis in Criminal Minds, voicing Lana Kane in Archer, and also recurring roles on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Mother Nature in The Santa Clause films, Talk Soup, and as well Friends.
Aisha Tyler Age|Birthday
Tyler is 51 years old as of 2022. Additionally, she was born on 18 September 1970 , in San Francisco, California, United States. Therefore, she celebrates her birthday on 18th of September every year.
Aisha Tyler Height |weight
Tyler has an average body height of 6 feet 0 inches (183 centimeters) tall. Moreover, she has a body weight of 66 kilograms (145.5 pounds).
Aisha Tyler Family
Tyler was born to Robin Gregory, a teacher, and also James Tyler, a photographer. In addition, the family spent one year in Ethiopia and later spent time living in an ashram in Oakland, California. Unfortunately, her parents separated when she was 10 years old, and later raised by her father. Moreover, her maternal great-grandfather was Thomas Montgomery Gregory, a dramatist and educator, and as well her great-great-grandfather was Howard University professor James Monroe Gregory.
Aisha Tyler Husband
Tyler married Jeff Tietjens an attorney in 1992 or 1994. Later, they separated in January 2015 and Tietjens filed for divorce (April 2016). Besides, it finalized in May 2017.
Aisha Tyler Career
Her career in television started in 2001 with jobs as the host of Talk Soup and also the reality-dating series. The Fifth Wheel, though Talk Soup was canceled the following year and she left The Fifth Wheel (2002) to pursue other interests. Additionally, she has devoted a significant amount of her time to independent projects, such as a role in the play Moose Mating, for which she earned an NAACP Image Award.
In regards to acting, she featured in Friends as Dr. Charlie Wheeler, Joey’s and later Ross’s girlfriend, in the ninth and also tenth seasons. Besides, she followed this up with guest spots on CSI: Miami and Nip/Tuck, and also as balancing season-long recurring roles on both CSI, Crime Scene Investigation and 24 through the 2004–2005 television season. Furthermore, she filmed her own talk show pilot for ABC and a sitcom pilot for CBS.
According to her regular role on the CBS series Ghost Whisperer through its first season, she appeared in numerous films, such as The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, .45, and also the comedy Balls of Fury. Additionally, in 2007, she filmed the thriller Death Sentence and also the crime drama Black Water Transit. Besides, she continues to appear on television, with appearances on Boston Legal, Reno 911!, The Boondocks, and also as a guest film critic on many episodes of At the Movies with Ebert and as well Roeper, filling in for the absent Roger Ebert while he recover from surgery.
Career Continuation
Later in 2009, she started her starring role voicing Lana Kane in the FX series Archer, which premiered on January 14, 2010 and as well has run for a total of 11 seasons as of 2020. Moreover, in August 2010, she started appearing in a recurring guest spot on The Stephanie Miller Show. Besides, she appears either in-studio or via phone when she is not committed to one of her acting roles. In addition, she filled in as the third member of the Stephanie Miller Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour on three shows in August 2011 while Hal Sparks was out of the country.
Again in March 2013, she was confirmed to be the new host of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Furthermore, she appears briefly as herself in the video game Watch Dogs and also featured in the music video for the “Weird Al” Yankovic song “Tacky”. Moreover, she was the original voice for the character Daisy Fitzroy in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite. In addition, her recordings were not used and the role went to Kimberly Brooks.
Additionally in June 2015, it was announced that she landed a recurring role on the eleventh season of Criminal Minds as Dr. Tara Lewis. Though she worked as a temporary replacement for Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was on her maternity leave. Later, in 2016, she began a Kickstarter campaign to fund her directorial feature film debut, Axis. In addition, the film was shot over seven days in May 2016. Besides, Axis was released via video-on-demand on April 10, 2018.
Lastly on the June 15, 2017, episode of The Talk, she announced that she would be leaving the show at the end of the seventh season. Because of her busy schedule with three other television shows and also directing films. In addition, she would return as a guest host and to promote her various projects.
Aisha Tyler Education
Tyler pursued an early interest in comedy at McAteer High School in San Francisco. The school had a special program called School of the Arts, currently named Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. Furthermore, she attended high school with Sam Rockwell and Margaret Cho. Besides, she had a crush on Rockwell and followed him into acting class one day.
Later, she graduated from Dartmouth College in 1992. Additionally, she was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity. Moreover,at Dartmouth, she co-founded and sang in the Dartmouth Rockapellas. After briefly serving for a San Francisco advertising firm, she toured the country pursuing a comedy career. Later, moved to Los Angeles in 1996.
Aisha Tyler Film
- 2000 Dancing in September
- 2001 Moose Mating
- 2002 The Santa Clause 2
- 2003 One Flight Stand
- 2004 Never Die Alone
- 2006 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
- 2006 .45
- 2007 Death Sentence
- 2007 Balls of Fury
- 2007 The Trap!
- 2008 Meet Market
- 2008 Bedtime Stories
- 2009 Black Water Transit
- 2010 The Babymakers
- 2020 Bad Therapy
- 2020 Friendsgiving
- 2021 Untitled Horror Movie
Aisha Tyler Net worth| Salary
Tyler has an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars. Besides, she earns $8.24 Millions.
