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Vanessa Bayer Biography
Vanessa Polster Bayer is an American actress and comedian. Bayer is best known for being a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017 which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She has also appeared in films such as Trainwreck which was released in 2015, Office Christmas Party in 2016, Carrie Pilby in 2016, and Ibiza in 2018. Bayer graduated from Orange High School in 2000 and joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in communication and French and graduated in 2004.
Vanessa Bayer Age
Vanessa Bayer was is a 37-year-old actress and comedian, best known for being a cast member on Saturday Night Live. She was born in 1981 14th of November.
Vanessa Bayer Family
Bayer was born and raised in Orange, Ohio, in Cleaveland to a Reform Jewish family. She was born to her parents Carolyn (née Polster) and Todd Bayer. Bayer has one older brother Jonah, who is a music journalist and the drummer for the punk supergroup United Nations. Bayer was diagnosed with leukaemia when she was 15 years old. Bayer stated that she discovered the meaning of “comic relief” while battling the disease, saying “I don’t know if it made me funnier, but it was so amazing, how it made everything be O.K.,”.
Vanessa Bayer Boyfriend | Vanessa Bayer Dating
Till date, Bayer has been able to keep her affairs very private. There is no information about her dating life and the people she has ever dated. Bayer is also not married too. There were speculations that she is a lesbian but Bayer is not a lesbian.
Vanessa Bayer Career
Bayer was collaborating with her brother Jonah on the web series Sound Advice for Above Average as of 2012 where She stars as Janessa Slater, a media coach who helps famous musicians change their image. While still in college, Bayer interned on the television shows Sesame Street and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. She participated in the cast of Bloomers, an all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe. She was also part of the all-Jewish cast of Second City’s stage show Jewsical: The Musical, a musical that presented a comedic take on Jewish life and culture. Bayer portrayed Kate Clark in the Chicago-based feature comedy Off the Cuff.
She then performed improvisational comedy at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic, where she trained with SNL castmate Paul Brittain as well as the Annoyance Theatre and Second City. In 2019, Bayer took the role Mia Cooper, the ex-wife of Taran Killam’s character, in a recurring role on ABC’s Single Parents. In 2010 September 25th, Bayer joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player. Beginning with the 2012–2013 season, she was promoted to repertory status and has been praised for her performance on the show, with HitFix calling her “one of the strongest members of the ensemble” and Rolling Stone calling her “Saturday Night Live’s secret weapon”. In 2014, Bayer was nominated for an American Comedy Award for her work on the show.
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In 2010 September 25, Bayer joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player. She began with the 2012–2013 season and was later promoted to repertory status. Bayer has received praises for her performance on the show, with HitFix calling her “one of the strongest members of the ensemble” and Rolling Stone calling her “Saturday Night Live’s secret weapon”. In 2014, she was nominated for an American Comedy Award for her work on the show. After seven years Bayer left SNL on May 20, 2017, after seven years on the show. She held a record of the show’s longest-serving female cast member with 149 episodes; Maya Rudolph had been a cast member for nine seasons, staying for 146 episodes.
Vanessa Bayer Movies
- 2018: Ibiza as Nikki
- 2017: The Polka King as Bitsy Bear
- 2016: Carrie Pilby as Tara
- 2016: Office Christmas Party as Allison
- 2015: Trainwreck as Nikki
- 2013: Despicable Me 2 as Flight Attendant (Voice)
- 2012: Adventures in the Sin Bin as Superdawg Waitress
- 2010: Stages of Emily as Jocelyn
- 2009: Off the Cuff as Kate Clark
Vanessa Bayer TV Shows
- 2019: Single Parents as Mia
- 2019: What We Do in the Shadows as Evie Russell
- 2018: Love Sarah Episode: “Sarah from College”
- 2018: Will & Grace as Amy
- 2017: The Simpsons as Dr. Clarity Hoffman-Roth (voice)
- 2016–18: Drunk History Various
- 2016: Modern Family as Marjorie
- 2015: Man Seeking Woman as Laura
- 2015: The Awesome Dr. Jill Stein-Awesome-Kaplan
- 2014–15: Portlandia
- 2014: Comedy Bang! Bang! as Susan Armhold Episode: “Patton Oswalt Wears a Black Blazer & Dress Shoes”
- 2013: The Mindy Project as Mary
- 2012: Sugarboy as Chip’s wife
- 2011: I Wanna Have Your Baby as Connie
- 2010–17: Saturday Night Live