Ashley Comeau

Ashley Comeau (born July 31, 1984), is a Canadian actress, writer and television producer. She is best known as an alumna of the Second City Toronto, and for her role as Ms. Badger on Degrassi.[1]

Ashley Comeau
Born (1984-07-31) July 31, 1984
Brampton
NationalityCanadian
EducationMayfield Secondary School
Alma materHumber College
OccupationActress, Writer, Improviser, Comedian, Television Producer
OrganizationSecond City
AgentCathy Knights at Catalyst
Partner(s)Connor Thompson
AwardsBest Female Improviser 2015 from Now Magazine's Best Of 2015
Websitehttp://www.ashleycomeau.com/

Early life

Comeau was born in Brampton in 1984. She attended Mayfield Secondary School[2] in the Dramatic Arts Programme. At Mayfield she started competing in the Canadian Improv Games.

Her father is a firefighter for the City of Brampton[3] and her mother was a make-up artist. She has one brother and one sister.

Career

Comeau's interest in acting began at the age of 9 when she started doing impersonations of Dana Carvey's character Garth from Wayne's World. She studied at Humber College (in their Comedy Programme), and with the Second City Conservatory. She started touring for Second City Theatricals on cruise ships, then came home to Toronto to join the Second City Mainstage cast in 2011 with Carly Heffernan, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Jason DeRosse and Inessa Frantowski.

She continues to act and tour with her sketch and improv partner Connor Thompson and her two best friends Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes as The Lusty Mannequins.[4]

She has produced and written for television for the past several years on shows like It's My Party for TVOKids, Paranormal 911, Haunted Hospitals, Chef in Your Ear for Food Network Canada. She has also worked on producing many live events (The 2016 & 2017 Banff World Media Festival Awards Gala and Program Competition, the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards, and many live stage shows.

She has contributed to Today's Parent, The Walrus Laughs, CBC's Punchline, She Does The City and written for YTV's The Zone.

Ashley has recently been awards a Canadian Comedy Award for 'Best Live Ensemble' for her work in 'She The People' at Second City Toronto. 'She The People' is the first sketch comedy revue in Second City's 50 year history to have an all female identifying cast. They will be taking this show to the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in summer 2019.

Ashley has been nominated for 'Best Ensemble" at the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and several Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Revues/Best Ensemble 2013/2014. She was named Best Female Improviser in Toronto by Now Magazine's 'Best Of 2015 Awards."

Personal life

She performs with her real life partner Connor Thompson in a comedy troupe called The Lusty Mannequins with fellow Second City alumni Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes. Connor and Ashley met in a Second City Conservatory class in 2008 and have performing together ever since.[5] They recently got married in a secret wedding in an asylum in England in 2018.

The Lusty Mannequins have taught and performed in Ireland, Spain, England, Germany, Cape Town, Greece, Denmark, and on the high seas. They recently won Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's 'Best of the Fest' in 2018 and are touring their show to Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2019.

Filmography

Film and Television

Year Title Role Notes
2019 Tallboyz II Men Sarah
2019 Christmas Jars (TV movie) Clara Zacher
2018 The Parent Council Mel McPherson
  • Ashley received an Acting Award from the Southern Shorts Awards Festival. The Parent Council was selected as a semi-finalist from the Los Angeles CineFest
2016-2019 Odd Squad Jamie Jam
2016 Stay Out Of The Desert Clara
2016 Hannah and Anna: Danger Girls Yoga Seal
2016- 2017 Degrassi: Next Class Ms. Badger
2015 Falling Without You Nurse
2014 The Palace Ludmilla
2014 Oh Deer! Cheryl
2014 Heartfelt Real Girl *Award-winning short film - 48 Hour Film Contest in Toronto
2013 But I'm Chris Jericho Acting Class Student
2013 Documentary of the Dead Infected
2012 Cold Blood Debra Sue Carter
2012 Curious and Unusual Deaths Maid
2010 Frank n' Stan Sarah
2010 Freak Encounters Hazmat Lady
2010 The Real M*A*S*H Mary
1996 Bogus Child at Airport Uncredited

References
  1. "Ashley Comeau - The Second City".
  2. Brampton natives bring on the funny at Sketchfest - Brampton Guardian www.bramptonguardian.com/.../4401300-brampton-natives-bring-on-the-funny-at-sket... Mar 6, 2014 - Brampton native Ashley Comeau is a co-producer and performer in this year's ... and went to Brampton's Mayfield Secondary School before that.
  3. "Competition Teams". www.brampton.ca.
  4. "Theatre Review: The Lusty Mannequins, Complete Works Vol 1 [John Candy Box Theatre, April 10th, 2010] - The Panic Manual - The Panic Manual". www.panicmanual.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
  5. "The One: Second City's Ashley Comeau and Connor Thompson". 6 February 2012.

"Ashley Comeau" at IMDb

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