Aisha Naomi Tyler is an Ethiopian-American TV Show host most notable for her hosting on Whose Line Is It Anyway?
She voices Sextina Aquafina in Season 1-Season 2, and Sarah Lynn's mother Carol Himmelfarb-Richardson in Netflix's BoJack Horseman.
Early Life
Tyler was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Robin Gregory, a teacher, and James Tyler, a photographer. The family spent one year in Ethiopia and later spent time living in an ashram in Oakland, California. Her parents separated when she was ten, after which she was raised by her father.
She pursued an early interest in comedy at McAteer High School in San Francisco, which had a special program called School of the Arts, now named Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. Tyler attended high school with Sam Rockwell and Margaret Cho. She had a crush on Rockwell, and followed him into acting class one day, leading to her interest in improv and sketch.
Tyler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1992. She was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity. At Dartmouth, she co-founded and sang in the Dartmouth Rockapellas, an all-female a cappella group devoted to spreading social awareness through song.
After briefly working for a San Francisco advertising firm, she toured the country pursuing a comedy career before moving to Los Angeles in 1996.
BoJack Horseman
Tyler voices Sextina Aquafina in Season 1-Season 2, and also Sarah Lynn's mother Carol Himmelfarb-Richardson in Netflix's BoJack Horseman.