‘SNL’s Chloe Fineman Had A Melania Trump Bit So Good It Scored Her Work With Francis Ford Coppola

Saturday Night Live favorite Chloe Fineman has recently exchanged receiving laughs for a more serious role.

Fineman, known most notably for her work on SNL since 2019, has always been recognized in the industry for her ability to do incredible impressions and voice work. Her ability not only helped her land a full-time cast member position on SNL, but a role in Francis Ford Coppola‘s new sci/fi drama Megalopolis. 

“Sometimes people go to weird shows that you don’t expect,” the SNL star said in Variety’s recent Actors on Actors segment. “It was 2019. I was [performing a sketch of] Ivana Trump and Melania FaceTiming. And I guess Francis was there, and he offered it from my weird Melania thing. You just never know who’s there.”

While SNL has yet to be graced by Fineman’s Melania impression, she showcased the talent on her Instagram account back in December. 

This is not Fineman’s first time transitioning from the world of live TV to film. She has worked on movies such as Babylon (2022) and most recently voiced Patsy Prescott in Despicable Me 4, premiering in July.

While most of Fineman’s work has stayed in the realm of comedy, she doesn’t feel that the transition into the drama genre was a drastic one.  

In the Variety discussion, Fineman said, “I weirdly feel more at home in the acting stuff, because I’m really late in life to comedy. I didn’t do my first comedy show until I was 27. I didn’t get SNL until 30. So for me, it was back to what I love.”

Despite her strides in the film industry, it seems Fineman has no intention of leaving television or her role at SNL anytime soon. 

“It’s an amazing job and I’m so grateful,” Fineman said on a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.