Michelle Buteau is an acclaimed American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcast host, known for her roles in the films Always Be My Maybe (2019), Isn’t It Romantic (2019), and the TV series Enlisted (2014).
Wiki/Biography
Michelle Buteau was born on July 24, 1977 (43 years old in 2020) in New Jersey, USA. She graduated from Florida International University in Miami, USA. On March 17, 2001, she moved to New York City and worked as a video editor for NBC and Fox. Later, she took courses at the American Comedy Academy in New York and began performing stand-up comedy.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 7″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
Family and Race
Michel Bhutto was born into a Catholic family.
Parents and siblings
Her father is of Lebanese-Haitian descent and her mother is of French-Jamaican descent.
Michelle Buteau’s parents
Relationships, husbands and children
Michelle Buteau married Dutch photographer Gijs van der Most on August 1, 2010. In January 2019, the couple gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, Hazel and Otis, through surrogacy.
Michelle Buteau and her husband Gijs van der Most
Michelle Buteau’s children
Profession
News footage editing
Before getting into comedy, Michelle Buteau considered a career in journalism. Initially, she wanted to be a news reporter, but after being told she didn’t have the physical qualifications required for the job, she became a news footage editor for NBC and Fox. Her career took a major turn on September 11, 2001, when she was asked to review and edit countless hours of disturbing footage of the 9/11 attacks in New York. The news channel offered therapy to its editors as they were editing one of the most horrific videos in American history, but instead of going to therapy, Michelle continued to try stand-up comedy to get through her emotionally stressful job.
As a comedian
Michelle Buteau began to get involved in comedy after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and made her television debut as a comedian in 2005 on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend. In 2007, she was selected to be a guest at the final Young Stand-Up Comedians Showcase at the HBO American Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. She has since continued to perform stand-up on various shows such as Best Week Ever, Late Late Show, Lopez Tonight, Last Comic Standing, The Jenny McCarthy Show, and at several colleges, clubs, and comedy festivals across the United States. Buteau was also part of the Comedy Lineup on Netflix, where up-and-coming comedians each perform a 15-minute stand-up routine. In 2020, her stand-up special Welcome to Buteaupia premiered on Netflix.
television
Michelle Buteau started her acting career in the American sitcom television series Whitney (2011). Later, she appeared in many other TV series such as Key and Peele (2012), China, IL (2013), Enlisted (2014), etc. In 2019, she starred in the American comedy television series First Wives Club, in which she played the role of Bree Washington.
In 2019, she made her debut in the digital world with the Netflix mini-series Tales of the City. In 2020, she hosted the American reality competition series The Circle.
Michelle Buteau hosts The Circle
Movie
In 2019, Michelle Buteau made her debut in the film industry with the movie Isn’t It Romantic, where she essayed the role of “Martina.”
Michel Buteau in the movies – isn’t it romantic?
In 2019, she played Cammy in the movie “Almost in Love with You” and later played Cynthia in the movie “Someone Great”. In the same year, she played Veronica in the movie “Always Be My Maybe” and was loved by the audience.
In 2020, she played the role of “Veronica Ramirez” in the movie “Work It”.
Facts/Trivia
- Michelle Buteau co-hosts VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live with Nick Lachey.
- She was nominated for the 2013 New Now Next Awards in the “Most Exciting Presenter” category.
- Her podcast, Late Night Whatever (2018), was named one of the best podcasts of the year by Time magazine, and in 2019 she also began co-hosting the podcast Adulting with comedian Jordan Carlos.
- Michelle Buteau, who owns Van Der Most Modern, a furniture store in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with her husband, Gijs van der Most, said in an interview,
I had always been interested in interior design, but in my 20s I had no idea what I was doing and I didn’t have a lot of money, so I was always in a Pier 1 clearance situation.”
- In 2019, she provided voice acting for the adult animated sitcom Bless the Harts.
- Michelle Buteau is also the author of “Survival of the Strongest,” a book that sums up her life: growing up in the Caribbean, being Catholic, raised in New Jersey, marrying into her husband’s Dutch family, doing IVF and surrogacy, being a mother, and so much more.
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