June Diane Raphael

At 44 years old, June Diane Raphael has this physical status:

June Diane Raphael ( RAY-feel; born January 4, 1980) is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

She starred in TV comedy programs Burning Love and Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV:: and 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 movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer.

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 Irish descent, and was 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.

Personal life

Raphael is married to actor-comedian Paul Scheer. They met 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. They have two sons, born 2014 and 2016.

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".

Raphael is also co-founder of The Jane Club, a coworking space in Los Angeles for professional women.

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Career

Raphael began writing and performing with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) in New York and later in Los Angeles. Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, a long-running sketch revue at UCB, was written and performed with her comedy partner and best friend Casey Wilson; the stage performance ran in Aspen, Colorado, 2005, and she was one of the official selections at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival. Raphael and Wilson's comedic relationship has since developed to a prolific writing career in film and television; they co-wrote their first screenplay for the comedy Bride Wars, in which they also appeared in supporting roles.

Raphael has appeared on programs such as Party Down, Happy Endings, New Girl, and Lady Dynamite, as well as films like Long Shot and Blockers. In 2010, Raphael co-starred as Barb in Spike TV's improvised comedy series Players. She appeared in all three seasons of Burning Love with Ken Marino and Michael Ian Black.

Raphael has collaborated with writer Casey Wilson on scripts for film and television. They co-starred Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paul Scheer, and Bob Odenkirk in the raunchy female buddy comedy Ass Backwards, which also co-stars Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Richard D'Onofrio, Paul Scheer, and Bob Odenkirk. On January 21, 2013, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Raphael and Wilson were working on their second film together in 2013, which was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's firm Gary Sanchez Productions.

Raphael appeared in the Off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (written by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron) at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan in February 2010. Raphael and Casey Wilson produced The Realest Real Housewives, which they appeared on alongside Jessica St. Clair, Melissa Rauch, Danielle Schneider, and Morgan Walsh. In 2011, the Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre began performing monthly. Raphael also contributed short stories to Worst Laid Plans, a 2010 book that was based on the long-running stage show in which she appeared regularly.

Raphael appeared in the Adult Swim action-comedy series NTSF:SUV::, which aired on three seasons from 2011 to 2013. How Did This Get Made? She co-answers with her partner, Paul Scheer, and the movie talk show How Does This Get Made? Jason Mantzoukas, a comedian, co-stars, and comedian Jason Mantzoukas appear. Scheer, Raphael, Mantzoukas, and other special guests "try to make sense of films that make absolutely no sense."

Raphael played Brianna Hanson in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie in 2015. Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the Times, a step-by-step guide for women considering a political career, was coauthored by Kate Black and Kate Black.

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