15 Facts About Vanessa Bayer

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Vanessa Polster Bayer was born on November 14,1981 and is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

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Vanessa Bayer has appeared in such films as Trainwreck, Office Christmas Party, Carrie Pilby, Ibiza, and Wander Darkly.

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Vanessa Bayer was born in Orange, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and raised in nearby Moreland Hills.

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Vanessa Bayer is the daughter of Carolyn and Todd Bayer.

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Vanessa Bayer's family is Jewish, and she has stated that her Jewish upbringing "influenced [her] life and comedy".

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Vanessa Bayer has a brother, Jonah, who is a music journalist and the guitarist of the punk supergroup United Nations.

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Vanessa Bayer stated that while battling the disease, she discovered the meaning of comic relief.

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Vanessa Bayer was part of the all-Jewish cast of The Second City's stage show Jewsical: The Musical, a musical that presented a comedic take on Jewish life and culture.

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Vanessa Bayer played the role of Kate Clark in the Chicago-based feature comedy Off the Cuff.

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Vanessa Bayer performed improvisational comedy at Chicago's ImprovOlympic, where she trained with SNL castmate Paul Brittain as well as the Annoyance Theatre and The Second City.

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Vanessa Bayer joined the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on September 25,2010.

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Vanessa Bayer departed SNL on May 20,2017, after seven years on the show.

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Vanessa Bayer appeared on ABC's Single Parents in 2019 in a recurring role as Mia Cooper, the ex-wife of Taran Killam's character.

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Vanessa Bayer is the co-creator, co-executive producer, and star of the Showtime comedy I Love That for You, which premiered on May 1,2022, and is loosely based on Vanessa Bayer's life as a survivor of childhood leukemia.

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In gratitude and recognition, Vanessa Bayer is involved with the foundation.