Beanie Feldstein

Feldstein made her acting debut in 2002, by appearing in the ABC comedy series My Wife and Kids. In 2012, she played Megan in the musical television pilot Madison High. In 2015, Feldstein appeared as a guest in the third season of Netflix's comedy series Orange Is the New Black. That same year, she played the role of Anna in the comedy film Fan Girl.

Her caretaker nicknamed her "Beanie" when she was an infant, and her brothers kept it up. She attended the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles and Stagedoor Manor, a theatre camp in New York. She and fellow Broadway and film actor Ben Platt have been best friends since high school. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2015 with a degree in sociology.

Feldstein received recognition with a more significant role in the comedy film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, alongside Seth Rogen and Zac Efron. The film was released on May 20, 2016.

On October 18, 2016, it was announced that Feldstein would play Minnie Fay in the 2017 Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!, alongside Bette Midler, making her Broadway debut. The show began previews on March 15, 2017 and opened on April 20, 2017. Her performance earned positive reviews from critics.

Feldstein starred in Whitney Cummings' directorial debut comedy film The Female Brain, which premiered at the LA Film Festival in June 2017. She also co-starred alongside Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, in Greta Gerwig's solo directorial debut Lady Bird, which was released to critical acclaim in 2017. The film earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Along with the cast, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

In 2019, Feldstein had a recurring role as Jenna in the first season of the television horror comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, an adaptation of the film of the same name. Her performance earned positive reviews from critics. She was not able to return for the second season, as was originally planned, due to other filming commitments.

Also in 2019, she starred in Olivia Wilde's directorial debut, the high school comedy Booksmart. Her performance garnered widespread critical acclaim and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She later portrayed the British lead character Johanna Morrigan in the coming-of-age comedy film How to Build a Girl, which was an adaptation of Caitlin Moran's 2014 novel of the same name. The film and her performance garnered positive reviews from critics.

On August 6, 2019, it was announced that she will star as Monica Lewinsky in the third season of American Crime Story, subtitled Impeachment. On August 29, 2019, it was announced that Feldstein would be starring in Richard Linklater's film adaptation of Merrily We Roll Along, which would be shot over the course of twenty years. Principal photography of the first section of the film has already been completed. Feldstein is set to star alongside Ben Platt and Blake Jenner.

In 2020, she guest starred as Tess Anderson, a new intern at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. Feldstein stated that it had been a dream of hers to appear on the series since she was a child. She also voiced a role in The Simpsons, featuring as a support group therapist in the episode "Frinkcoin". She appeared in the television specials Saturday Night Seder and Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Celebration, performing a cover of "It Takes Two" from Into the Woods with Ben Platt on the latter program.