June Diane Raphael

June Diane Raphael
220px Raphael at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International
Born	(1980-01-04) January 4, 1980 Rockville Centre, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress, comedian, screenwriter
Years active	2002–present
Spouse(s)	Paul Scheer (m. 2009)
Children	1

June Diane Raphael (RAY-feel; born January 4, 1980) is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter best known for starring in comedy programs such as Burning Love, Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV:: and currently in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie. Notable film work includes 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 popular movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas.

Early life

Raphael was born and raised in Rockville Centre, New York, to Diane and John Raphael, where she graduated from South Side High School in 1998. She is of partial Irish descent and raised Catholic. She has two older sisters, Lauren and Deanna.

Raphael 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 from NYU in 2002, Raphael 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. Performing the long-running stage show opened doors for them as writers. After performing the show at the "U.S. Comedy Arts Festival" in 2005, they were hired by New Regency Pictures to write the film Bride Wars and landed a development deal with UPN to create a sitcom pilot.

Career

Raphael 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. The two women, who had first met in a clowning class during their freshman year at NYU, went on to win the ECNY Award for "Best Comedy Duo" in 2005. They also performed as members of the UCB improv teams "Mr. and Mrs. All-Star", "Sentimental Lady", and "Hey, Uncle Gary!". Raphael and Wilson's comedic partnership has since branched out into an active writing career in film and television, 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 a film and television actress, Raphael 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 and currently recurs as Dr. Sadie on the FOX sitcom New Girl. She has 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, Raphael 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.

Raphael (right) and Casey Wilson (left) with Ass Backwards director Chris Nelson (center) at the 2013 Outfest film festival.

Raphael continues to collaborate with writing partner Casey Wilson on scripts for film and television, they have worked on numerous script rewrites for films in development, such as projects with Anna Faris and America Ferrera attached to star. As writer-performers, Raphael and Wilson also continue to generate material for themselves. They most recently wrote and starred together in the raunchy female buddy comedy Ass Backwards, 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. Raphael and Wilson are currently writing a second film to star in together to be produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's company Gary Sanchez Productions.

In February 2010, Raphael joined the rotating cast of the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron) at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan. Raphael and Casey Wilson have created their newest comedic stage show The Realest Real Housewives, which they star in alongside Jessica St. Clair, Melissa Rauch, Danielle Schneider and Morgan Walsh. The show began running monthly at the Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2011. Raphael also contributed short stories to the 2010 book "Worst Laid Plans", based on the long-running stage show, which she frequently performed in.

Raphael co-starred in the Adult Swim action-comedy series NTSF:SD:SUV::, which aired for three seasons 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. The podcast is a roundtable discussion where Scheer, Raphael, Mantzoukas and other special guests; "try make sense of movies that make absolutely no sense".

Personal life

Raphael lives in Los Angeles and is married to actor-comedian Paul Scheer. They began dating in January 2004, after first meeting 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 moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2005. In October 2009, they married at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Their son, August "Gus" Scheer, was born on April 30, 2014.

Her older sister Deanna Raphael is the co-host of the pop-culture based podcast "OMFG!" on the Wolfpop podcasting networking.

Other

Raphael and comedian Kulap Vilaysack are the founders and directors of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB) associated "UCB Corps" community, a volunteer charity organization. Raphael and Vilaysack organize charity events and projects to help improve the community, with the help of volunteers and other UCB performers "who want to make our world a better place".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	The Wedding Weekend	Ted's Tammy
	Caffeine: A Love Story	June	Short film
2007	Zodiac	Mrs. Toschi
2008	Forgetting Sarah Marshall	Ann at the Bar
2009	Bride Wars	Amanda	Screenwriter
	Year One	Maya
2010	The Dry Land	Susie
	Cried Suicide	Jessica	Short film
	Going the Distance	Karen
	Weakness	Elizabeth
2012	Bachelorette	Cool Stripper
	Girl Most Likely	Dara
2013	Ass Backwards	Kate Fenner	Screenwriter, Executive Producer
	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	Chani's Boss
2015	Unfinished Business	Susan Truckman
	Bad Night	Goldstein	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Ed	Student	1 episode
2007	Derek and Simon: The Show	June	1 episode
	Flight of the Conchords	Felicia	1 episode
	The Very Funny Show	Cast Member	Series regular
2007–2008	Human Giant	Various	4 episodes
2009	In the Motherhood	Liz	1 episode
2010	Party Down	Danielle Lugozshe	2 episodes
	Players	Barb Tolan	Series regular
	Big Lake	Miss Hauser	1 episode
2010–2011	Funny or Die Presents	Various Characters	5 episode
2011	Happy Endings	Melinda Shershow	1 episode
	Free Agents	Julie	1 episode
2011–2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Piper Ferguson	Series regular
2011–2015	American Dad!	Various Voices	4 episodes
2012	Animal Practice	Dr. Jill Leiter	3 episodes
2012–2013	Burning Love	Julie Gristlewhite	Series regular
	Whitney	Chloe	2 episodes
2012–2014	New Girl	Sadie	Season 1-3 (recurring; 6 episodes)
2013	Drunk History	Isabella Stewart Gardner	1 episode
	Kroll Show	Dina Bludd	1 episode
	Inside Amy Schumer	Mandy	1 episode
	Parks and Recreation	Tynnyfer	1 episode
2014	The Greatest Event in Television History	Emily Scott	1 episode
	The Mason Twins	Pender Mason	Star, Creator, Executive Producer NBC sitcom pilot
	The Birthday Boys	Barbara O'Shaughnessy	1 episode
2014–2015	The League	Pam	2 episodes
2015	American Dad!	Suze	1 episode
2015–present	Grace and Frankie	Brianna	Series regular

External links

• June Diane Raphael at the Internet Movie Database
• June Diane Raphael on Twitter
• June Raphael page on FunnyOrDie.com