At the time, she explained to Eater that the store had high-end brands, along with a “big” collection of wines under $13 for those looking for a “very good bottle” that won’t “break a bank.” Although the Wine Country actress is based on the West Coast, Poehler said that she visits the store whenever she’s in New York City.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the ’Saturday Night Live’ Weekend Update desk Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImageĪlong with longtime friends and musicians Amy Miles and Mike Robertson, Poehler opened Zula Wines & Spirits in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood in 2018. 'Every once in a while, it still comes out when I'm yelling or fighting.' “I found out I had an accent when I went to, which is not full of people from Boston,' she said. I wasn’t shy, I liked to be looked at, and making people laugh released a certain kind of hot lava into my body that made me feel like a queen.” She shed her thick accentīorn and raised in the Boston suburbs, Poehler admitted to The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 that she had to work hard to shed her New England accent. “But when I stood in the dining room and demanded attention I was reminded of things I already secretly knew about myself. I was planning to go to Boston College as an English major and maybe become a teacher, like both of my parents,” Poehler wrote in a 2013 New Yorkerpiece. “I wasn’t sure yet that I wanted to be an actor. She ultimately fell in love with that performance element of her summer gig. The summer before she began studying at Boston College in 1989, Poehler worked part-time at an ice cream parlor called Chadwick’s, where she “wore old-timey outfits” and frequently had to sing “Happy Birthday” to customers - complete with drums, kazoos, cowbells and noisemakers.

Here are 10 things you might now know about the Emmy winner: She worked at an ice cream parlor Over the course of her career that spawned from those early after school gigs, Poehler has worked overtime in taking on several jobs, often simultaneously, including actress, comedian and producer, to name a few.īeginning in 2001, she began an impressive eight-season career on Saturday Night Live, before parlaying her success into such onscreen roles as Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation, as well as behind-the-scenes work, producing such series as Broad City.

Amy Poehler remembers her Burlington, Massachusetts, hometown as “decidedly blue collar, filled with teachers and nurses and the occasional sales manager,” and where she and her friends fell asleep to a soundtrack of their parents “arguing about car payments and tuition.” Needless to say, part-time jobs were all but expected for local teens.

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