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Maya Rudolph spent seven seasons on Saturday Night Live building a run of sharp character work, then kept expanding afterward — an Emmy-winning voice role on Big Mouth, Emmy nominations for The Good Place, and, decades after leaving the show, an Emmy for returning to SNL to play Kamala Harris. Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2024.