Cheri Oteri

Cheri Oteri voices Gwendolyn Zapp, the eccentric billionaire and CEO of BigTech, in Disney’s “Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation,” a brand-new animated comedy from the creators of Disney Channel’s hit series “Big City Greens.”

Oteri was born in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia and later moved to Los Angeles, where she worked in promotions for A&M Records.

She joined the Groundlings, and in 1995, the producers of “Saturday Night Live” saw one of her monologues, which led to an audition and eventually being hired as a cast member, where she starred for five seasons. She has also appeared in several films, including “Scary Movie,” “Inspector Gadget,” “Liar Liar,” “Dumb and Dumberer,” “Shrek the Third,” “Southland Tales” and “Grown Ups 2.” In 2009, Oteri became a regular voice on Fox’s animated comedy series “Sit Down, Shut Up,” which later moved to Comedy Central. She also voiced Esther on Disney’s “Puppy Dog Pals. “

Oteri has made multiple guest appearances on sitcoms such as The CW’s “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”; TruTV’s “Those Who Can’t”; NBC’s “Just Shoot Me!,” in which she was nominated for an Emmy®; “Hot in Cleveland”; and as an emotionally unstable nanny on the Golden Globe® and Emmy Award-winning series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”