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June Diane Raphael

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June Diane Raphael is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has starred in TV comedy programs Burning Love, 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.
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Co-created the two-woman sketch comedy show, "Rode Hard and Put Away Wet", with her friend, Casey Wilson. The show originated at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City and was hailed as a "Critics Pick" by TimeOut New York. "Rode Hard" was also an official 2005 selection of the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado and won Best Comedic Duo at the 2005 Emerging Comics of NY (ECNY) Awards. In late 2005, the show was performed for several months at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles.
Performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA.
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 34, a son named August Scheer on April 30, 2014. Child's father is her husband, Paul Scheer.
Throws the annual It's Not Your Parents' Dance Party in LA to benefit the Bresdee Foundation, an after school program and family services organization that helps young people pursue an education. The event is also in honor of her parents, who have both passed.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 36, a son named Sam Scheer in August 2016. Child's father is her husband, Paul Scheer.

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!
I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.
I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times.
I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.

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