Rosanna Pansino is a popular American YouTuber, baker, actress, singer, and author. She is best known for hosting the cooking show “Nerdy Nummies” on YouTube.
Wiki/Biography
Rosanna Pansino was born as “Rosanna Reardon” in Seattle, Washington on Friday, June 8, 1984 (age 36 in 2020). Her zodiac sign is Gemini.
Rosanna Pancino as a child
She attended an Indian elementary school and completed her education at West Seattle High School. In high school, she was a member of the varsity gymnastics and varsity soccer teams. She attended Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, Washington. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career.
appearance
Height: 4′ 10″
Eye Color: Brown
Hair color: Brown (dyed blonde)
Family, Race, and Relationships
She is of Italian, Croatian, German and Irish descent.
Rosanna Pansino tweets about her ancestors
Her parents often appear on her YouTube channel. His father is known as Papa Pizza (died on December 17, 2019 due to leukemia) and her mother is known as Mamma Mia.
Rosanna Pansino’s parents
She has an elder sister named Molly Lu who also appears frequently on her YouTube channel.
Rosanna Pansino and her sister
During her time on the TV series Glee (2010), she was rumored to be dating actor Josh Sussman.
Rosanna Pansino and Josh Sussman
In 2018, she announced she was in a relationship with YouTuber, voice actor, and former sports commentator Mike Lamond. In 2019, in a special Valentine’s Day video, she revealed that she had known Mike for nine years and they had been dating for six years.
Rosanna Pancino and her boyfriend
Profession
As an actress
In 2010, she starred in Scream Queens, a reality TV series where actresses competed to star in a Lionsgate horror film. The prize for her season was to star in a Saw movie. She placed ninth on the show.
Scream Queens Rosanna Pancino
After that, she became an actress, playing small roles in movies. In 2009, she made her debut in the TV series Parks and Recreation as the “Holiday Elf”.
She then appeared in the TV series: Warren the Ape (2010), Glee (2010), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2010), A Husky Story (2011), The Warp Zone (2012), Broken Quest (2013), Bad Internet (2016), Emo Dad (2016), Escape the Night (2018-19) and Ryan’s Mystery Playdate (2019). She has appeared in many short films such as I Owe My Life to Corbin Bleu (2010), Shaky Grounds (2010) and Star Wars: DIY Cosplay (2015). She has also appeared in feature films: Amy Alyson Fans (2011), Bloodsucka Jones (2013), and A Heist with Markiplier (2019).
As a YouTuber
In 2010, encouraged by several professional YouTube friends, she created her own YouTube channel. The first video she uploaded was of her volunteering at a Duwamish River cleanup in honor of Earth Day 2011.
That same year, she started a cooking show, “Nerdy Nummies”, on her channel; the first video she uploaded was of her baking a “Super Mario Cake”.
Nerdy Nummies is all about showcasing baking creations that resemble characters and items from video games, TV shows, anime, books, and movies. Nerdy Nummies became a huge success and became a popular baking show on YouTube. The show even earned four Streamy Awards nominations. Initially, when she created the channel, she used to film and edit on her own. Now, she works with a team of seven people, including her parents who serve as office managers and her sister who helps her with filming full-time and has become an important figure in the show. The show has featured many YouTube celebrities such as Michelle Phan, Bethany Mota, Lindsey Stirling, Grace Helbig, Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning, Smosh, Hannah Hart, Cassey Ho, iJustine, Jordan Maron (CaptainSparklez), Colleen Ballinger, Markiplier, MatPat, Kaelem, Alx James, Random Encounters, Lilly Singh, Phil Lester, Dan Howell, Strawburry17, Joey Graceffa, Shane Dawson, Jimmy Wong, Freddie Wong, ParkerGames, Miss Piggy and Swedish Chef from The Muppets: Most Wanted, Cookie Monster from Sesame Street, video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, actress Madison Iseman, and YouTube scientist Grant Thompson. Her YouTube channel has over 12.4 million subscribers.
Other works
In 2015, she released her debut single “Perfect Together”, produced by American video editor, singer, songwriter and musician Kurt Hugo Schneider. The song was originally released on iTunes and its music video was released later that year.
She published her first book, The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook, in 2015. The book features recipes from her show Nerdy Nummies, as well as some recipes that have never been featured on the show. It became a New York Times bestseller and was listed as one of the “50 Must-Read Books for YouTubers” by the Book Riot Podcast.
In 2018, she published her second cookbook, Baking Year Round.
In August 2017, Rosanna launched a baking product line in partnership with Wilton Cooking Company. Her baking product line includes cooking tools and products for beginners. The line is already available at several retailers including Walmart and Michael’s.
Rosanna Pansino Bakery Production Line
She is also a producer and has been working on another series called “Ro’s Life” since 2013.
Awards and Achievements
- Named “Queen of the Internet” in 2012
- 2013 Shorty Award for Best Foodie, Chef or Food Lover on Social Media
Rosanna Pansino wins Shorty Award
- Kikkoman wins the 2016 Gourmet Taste Award
- 2017 Gourmet Taste Awards
- Named to Forbes’ 2017 list of top food industry influencers
- YouTube – Diamond Creator Award 2019
Favorite things
- Dessert: Pineapple Pound Cake
- YouTube Bloggers: Daily Grace, Felicia Day, Cox n’ Crendor
characteristic
She owns a house in Manhattan Beach, California.
Salary/Net Worth
Rosanna Pansino’s YouTube income is estimated (as of 2016) to be $6 million.
Facts/Trivia
- In her free time, she enjoys cooking, shooting, archery and singing.
- According to Rosanna, throughout her childhood, her friends and family considered her a “nerdy,” “awkward” child.
- She is affectionately called “Ro” by her many family members, friends, and fans.
- Her name “Rosanna” means “elegant rose” in Italian.
- Her interest in cooking stems from the fact that her grandmother also loved to cook.
- She wanted to pursue a career in acting since she was a child. In high school, she acted in musicals and plays.
- When she first started her YouTube channel, she invested her life savings into it; she had about $20,000 in savings, which she had earned by saving 10% of every paycheck she received. She had saved money by doing odd jobs like babysitting and dog walking since she was 12. She also waitressed for nearly eight years and worked at Sears and Abercrombie stores.
- She started acting and YouTube almost at the same time. Early in her career, her agent asked her to choose between acting and YouTube because it would affect her acting career. Despite the risk, she decided not to leave YouTube. In an interview, she said,
At that point, I wasn’t making any money on YouTube. I knew it was possible, but I wasn’t making any money. I decided, I’m going to do this. I’m not going to quit YouTube. My agent would drop me. He did. I put 100% of my time and my life savings into my channel at that point. I ran my channel full time for a year before I started making money. I was living off my savings. I lived in a very small apartment, about six people, three bedrooms.”
- In 2013, she participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s benefit for the Alzheimer’s Association, a nonprofit American voluntary health organization focused on Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
- In 2019, Rosanna was rushed to a local hospital with severe pain and illness. She was later diagnosed with a life-threatening bacterial infection and received immediate treatment.
Rosanna Pansino discusses her illness on Twitter
- In 2019, she appeared as a guest judge on Netflix’s original baking competition show Nailed It!
Rosanna Pansino on Nailed It!
- She was awarded the title of “Education Goodwill Ambassador” by Tsinghua University in China. While living in China, she taught English and contributed to global poverty alleviation.
- She has been featured in many magazines including Locale, Girls’ Life, Forbes, Adweek, Nylon and Seventeen.
Rosanna Pansino on the cover of Locale magazine
- She loved dogs. She had a dog named Cookie, who passed away in March 2020. After Cookie passed away, she adopted two dogs and named them Blueberry and Coconut.
Rosanna Pancino’s Dog – Blueberries and Coconuts
- She also has an online store that sells “Nerdy Nummies” merchandise and her cookbooks.
Rosanna Pansino Advertising Nerdy Nummies Merchandise
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