June Diane Raphael Biography
June Diane Raphael is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. She starred in TV comedy programs Burning Love and Adult Swim’s NTSF:SD:SUV:: and in Grace and Frankie.
She has also had supporting roles in Year One and Unfinished Business, as well as her 2013 Sundance film Ass Backwards, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. She also co-hosts the movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer.
June Diane Raphael Age
June Diane Raphael was born in Rockville Centre, New York, U.S. on 4th January 1980. She is 39 years as of 2019.
June Diane Raphael Family
She was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York, to Diane and John Raphael. She has two older sisters, Lauren and Deanna. She attended South Side High School and graduated in 1998.
After high school, she attended New York University (NYU), where she studied acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. After graduating in 2002, she and her best friend from college, Casey Wilson, studied improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, where they would eventually run their two-woman sketch show for a number of years.
June Diane Husband
She is married to actor-comedian Paul Scheer. They met when the artistic director of Manhattan’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre brought Scheer in to offer advice to Raphael and her comedy partner Casey Wilson on making improvements to their UCB two-woman sketch show.
They got married on October 2009, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Together they have two sons, Gus (born 2014) and Sam (born 2016).
June Diane Raphael Net Worth
An American actress, writer, and comedian, June have an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars.
June Diane Raphael Career
She began her comedy career writing and performing with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) in New York and later in Los Angeles.
Among her best known work at UCB, was the long-running sketch show Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, written and performed alongside her comedy partner and best friend Casey Wilson; the stage show ran from 2003 to 2006 in New York and Los Angeles and was an official selection at 2005’s US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
She and her comedy partner and best friend Casey Wilson; won the ECNY Award for “Best Comedy Duo” in 2005. They co-wrote their first screenplay for the comedy Bride Wars, which they also appeared in with supporting roles, followed by landing a development deal with UPN in 2005 to create a half-hour comedy pilot and in 2007 they worked as writers and story editors on the Americanized version of Creature Comforts on CBS. They also continue to contribute comedic videos to the humor website Funny or Die.
As an actress, she has made guest appearances on shows such as Party Down, Happy Endings, Animal Practice, American Dad!, Kroll Show, Funny or Die Presents, Big Lake, Drunk History, Flight of the Conchords, Curb Your Enthusiasm and currently recurs as Dr. Sadie on the FOX sitcom New Girl.
She has also appeared in films such as Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Girl Most Likely, Unfinished Business, Going the Distance, Zodiac, Bachelorette, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Year One.
In 2010, she co-starred as Barb in the improvised comedy series Players on Spike TV. She also starred in all three seasons of the web series Burning Love alongside Ken Marino and Michael Ian Black. They wrote and starred together in Ass Backwards, the raunchy female buddy comedy, which also co-stars Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Paul Scheer, and Bob Odenkirk. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2013.
She co-starred in the Adult Swim action-comedy series NTSF:SD:SUV::, from 2011 to 2013. She currently co-hosts with her husband, Paul Scheer, the movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? along with comedian Jason Mantzoukas.
June Diane Raphael Long Shot Interview
You’ve probably seen June Diane Raphael in many of the numerous comedies in which she’s appeared including the movies: The Disaster Artist (2017) Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), as well as pivotal roles on the small screen in comedies such as Grace and Frankie, which she has appeared regularly since 2015, as well as Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Fresh Off the Boat.
In Long Shot she stars as Maggie Millikin, assistant to Charlotte Field, the Secretary of State (Charlize Theron) who has ambitions of becoming President of the United States. Milikin isn’t fond of Field’s budding relationship with a troublesome and unemployed journalist (Seth Rogen), whom she can barely tolerate.
Question: You’ve worked with Seth Rogen several times. Do you feel you’re part of a comedy fraternity?
June Diane Raphael: In some ways, yes. I worked with Seth on Burning Love, I did a scene in Neighbors that wasn’t actually in the film, and then I did Blockers. The really wonderful thing about Seth and his whole team is that they have a repertoire of actors that they return to and I am thrilled to be considered in that company. My husband (Paul Scheer) and I started out like so many people at UCB (Upgrade Citizens Brigade) where we learned to improvise.
So, there’s a shared language and trust especially when you all come from literally the same school of performance. Many of the people from my class in Improv 101 are the same people now in my professional life. It’s really special.
Question: Are you a fan of romantic comedies? They haven’t been as popular of late – why do you think that is?
June Diane Raphael: I am a fan of romantic comedies. I loved watching them and I was sad when they went away. I think comedy went through a period where these roles were problematic for women. The idea that the woman was always going after the guy and wanting the guy so badly at the cost of everything else, deserved to be examined. This movie addresses that and has a much more modern take on it all.
Question: Do you think romantic comedies, in general, can set unrealistic expectations?
June Diane Raphael: Well, I think for all of us, you have to know that what’s on-screen is not real life. But I do think representation does matter. And seeing women in a role like Charlize is playing matters.
It’s important to see women in powerful positions who also have a full range of emotions, and are flawed and not perfect.
I think these things do matter and when you’re growing up and looking at reflections of yourself and not seeing any reflections of yourself, it can have a negative impact. So I think all of these conversations are only a good thing for movies and TV.
Question: When did you realize that you were funny?
June Diane Raphael: I am waiting to realize that. (laughs) I haven’t yet. Work in progress over here. I love doing comedy, I love being in comedies and I care about it very deeply and I always wanted to be good but I still feel like I am very much still working toward that. I don’t think I am funny at all, but I absolutely love the feeling of making someone laugh.
Question: In this politically correct climate, is it trickier to do comedy because people are so easily offended?
June Diane Raphael: I do think it’s important to create and have a safe creative space in which you can be free and be free to fail and be free to say what is on your mind and work from instinct. And also, it’s important to make sure that space is safe for everyone. So I think that the conversations around whether words or actions have a negative impact on someone, regardless of what the intention might be are valuable and worth thinking about.
And to me, it means it will create stories that are more representative of more people and that is only a good thing. So I don’t agree with the idea that it’s going to hurt comedy and comedians can’t say what they want anymore. I think truthfully more comedians are going to be represented to say exactly what they want, and that is a great thing.
Adopted from: www.female.com.au