Ashley Comeau

Ashley Comeau
Born	(1984-07-31) July 31, 1984 Brampton
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Mayfield Secondary School
Alma mater	Humber College
Occupation	Actress, Writer, Improviser, Comedian, Television Producer
Organization	Second City
Agent	Alicia Faucher at Fountainhead Talent
Partner	Connor Thompson
Awards	Canadian Comedy Award Winner 2019, 'Best Female Improviser 2015' from Now Magazine's Best Of 2015
Website	http://www.ashleycomeau.com/

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: Next Class.

Early life

Comeau was born in Brampton in 1984. She attended Mayfield Secondary School in the Dramatic Arts Program. At Mayfield, she started competing in the Canadian Improv Games.

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 Program) 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. She also performs with her two best friends, Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes, as The Lusty Mannequins.

For several years, she has produced and written for television shows like Tallboyz, It's My Party for TVOKids, Paranormal 911, Haunted Hospitals, and Chef in Your Ear for Food Network Canada. She has also worked on producing live events, including 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 (Canadian TV channel's) The Zone.

Comeau was recently awarded 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. In the summer of 2019, the show was presented at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.

Comeau was nominated for "Best Ensemble" at the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and several Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Revues/Best Ensemble 2013/2014. In Toronto, she was named Best Female Improviser by Now Magazine's Best Of 2015 Awards.

In 2020, she participated in Mass Hysterical: A Comedic Cantata, a webcast collaboration between Second City alumni and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which represented a comedic history of the use of classical and liturgical music in the church.

Personal life

Comeau is bisexual. She performs with her real-life partner Connor Thompson in a comedy troupe, "The Lusty Mannequins," along with fellow Second City alumni Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes. Thompson and Comeau met in a Second City Conservatory class in 2008 and have performed together ever since. They got married during a secret ceremony in an asylum in England in 2018.

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

Filmography

Film and Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Bogus	Child at Airport	Uncredited
2010	The Real M*A*S*H	Mary
2010	Freak Encounters	Hazmat Lady
2010	Frank n' Stan	Sarah
2012	Curious and Unusual Deaths	Maid
2012	Cold Blood	Debra Sue Carter
2013	Documentary of the Dead	Infected
2013	But I'm Chris Jericho!	Acting Class Student
2014	Heartfelt	Real Girl
2014	Oh Deer!	Cheryl
2014	The Palace	Ludmilla
2015	Falling Without You	Nurse
2016- 2017	Degrassi: Next Class	Ms. Badger
2016	Hannah and Anna: Danger Girls	Yoga Seal
2016	Stay Out Of The Desert	Clara
2016-2019	Odd Squad	Jamie Jam
2018	The Parent Council	Mel McPherson	*Comeau received an Acting Award from the Southern Shorts Awards Festival. The Parent Council was selected as a semi-finalist from the Los Angeles CineFest
2019	Christmas Jars	Clara Zacher
2020	Odd Squad Mobile Unit	Jamie Jam
2019-2021	TallBoyz	Sarah/Emo Karen/Beer Server/Nurse/Jasmine/Serious Woman
2020	The Boys	Margaret
2021	Transplant	Lisa Williams

External links

"Ashley Comeau" at IMDb