Chelsea Vanessa Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for portraying Gina Linetti on the Fox police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Chelsea Vanessa Peretti was born on February 20, 1978 in Contra Costa County, California, the daughter of a Christian father and Jewish mother. Her father is of English and Italian descent. Peretti was raised in Oakland, California. She has two brothers and a sister; her older brother, internet entrepreneur Jonah Peretti, co-founded BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post. Peretti attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland. She moved to New York City in 1996 to attend Barnard College and graduated in 2000. She attended elementary school with her Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-star Andy Samberg and junior high school with comedian Moshe Kasher.
Peretti has written for The Village Voice, Details, Playgirl, Jest, American Theatre Magazine, as well as online publications like The Huffington Post. While in New York she made short films with Variety SHAC, a comedy troupe she formed in 2004 along with Andrea Rosen, Heather Lawless, and Shonali Bhowmik.