Aubrey Plaza is an actress and comic born on June 26, 1984. She plays April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation. After doing improv and sketch comedy in the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Plaza began her first web-based series with the Jeannie Tate Show. The show continued to grow with her appearances in Funny People by Judd Apatow and Scott Pilgrim, in vs. World. Happy birthday! Aubrey Christina Plaza born Wilmington Delaware The granddaughter of attorney Bernadette Plass and Financial specialist David Plaza. Her mother and father both are Irish/English, and Puerto Rican. Plaza has received her education at an all girls Catholic school in 2002, and then the Tisch School of the Arts located at New York University in 2006. While she was an incoming senior at high school, Plaza participated as a part of the Wilmington Drama League shows and served as president of the student government. Plaza was struck by a stroke in 2004, while she was in the college. She developed expressive aphasia, ...