Biography
Vanessa Bayer is an American actress and comedian. From 2010 to 2017, she was a cast member on NBC’s sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She co-created, executive produced, and stars in the Showtime sitcom I Love That for You, which is largely based on her experience as a juvenile leukemia survivor.
Age
She is 42 years old as of 14 November 2023. She was born in 1981 in Orange, Ohio, United States. Her real name is Vanessa Polster Bayer.
Family – Education
She is Carolyn and Todd Bayer’s daughter. Bayer’s family is Jewish, and she has remarked that her Jewish upbringing “influenced [her] life and comedy”. Her brother, Jonah, is a music journalist and the guitarist for the punk ensemble United Nations. Bayer attended Orange High School and graduated in 2000. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication in 2004, with a degree in communication and French.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m).
Illness
At the age of 15, Bayer was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). She remarked that while battling the condition, she learned the concept of comic relief. After Bayer was diagnosed with leukemia as a teenager, the Make-A-dream Foundation granted her dream to take a family vacation to Hawaii.
Saturday Night Live
On September 25, 2010, Bayer joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player. She was promoted to repertory rank for the 2012-2013 season. She was nominated for an American Comedy Award for her work on the program in 2014, and for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017. She left SNL on May 20, 2017, after spending seven years there.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
She plays officer Debbie Fogle on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Deborah Lynn “Debbie” Fogle was an NYPD officer who worked alongside Raymond Holt before being sentenced to prison for taking 20 kilograms of cocaine and machine guns from evidence, as well as abduction. In Manhunter, Jake Peralta, Charles Boyle, and Terry Jeffords arrive in Garfield Plaza and direct the forensic team to secure the area. They are commanded by Debbie Fogle, the uniformed officer in charge of crowd control. Debbie instructs Holt on how to keep his hat on while standing to prevent pigeons from pooping or pecking him.
After Holt and Debbie are held at gunpoint, she admits that her motivation for joining the force was to find the man who murdered her sister. In The Jimmy Jab Games II, Charles pushes Debbie to take his place as a contender, but she unintentionally wakes up and tells her about his embarrassing incident in the first Jimmy Jab Games. She is later chosen as the competition’s final number and grabs 20 bricks of cocaine and two machine guns.
Debbie arrives at the 99th Precinct and is brought in for questioning. Terry speculates that Debbie could be working for criminal lord Silvio Nucci. Jake Peralta and the rest of the squad devise a strategy to fool Debbie into disclosing Nucci’s whereabouts. Debbie is broken out by Jake and Rosa while they are undercover, but she declines to testify against Nucci. Debbie tries to get Rosa to put down the phone, but Norm Scully eventually takes her down. Debbie loses her mind due to her cocaine high, and Jake takes her gun. For the handover, they drive to a big Airbnb mansion, but Jake and Rosa make her doubt.
Book
In June 2019, she released the children’s book How Do You Care for a Very Sick Bear?, which teaches kids how to help friends with long-term illnesses.
Career
As of 2012, Bayer was working with her brother Jonah on the online series Sound Advice for Above Average, in which she plays Janessa Slater, a media coach who helps famous musicians transform their image. She was a member of the all-Jewish cast of The Second City’s theatrical piece Jewsical: The Musical, which provided a satirical perspective on Jewish life and culture. She portrayed Kate Clark in the Chicago-based movie comedy Off the Cuff. She did improvisational comedy at Chicago’s ImprovOlympic, where she studied with SNL castmate Paul Brittain, as well as at the Annoyance Theatre and The Second City.
Bayer had a recurring appearance on ABC’s Single Parents in 2019 as Mia Cooper, Taran Killam’s ex-wife. Beginning in 2018, she has a recurring role on NBC’s Will & Grace as Amy, a former baker who loses her job due to Karen and then works for Karen’s baseball team. Bayer is the co-creator, co-executive producer, and star of the Showtime sitcom I Love That for You, which debuted on May 1, 2022 and is partially based on her experience as a young leukemia survivor.
Bayer has appeared in two episodes of What We Do in the Shadows as Evie Summers, an Emotional Vampire who sucks energy from victims by telling passive aggressive and completely manufactured stories about different horrific things that allegedly occurred to her. She has a rivalry with energy Vampire Colin Robinson, played by Mark Proksch, who employs boring, lengthy explanations to achieve the same purpose.
Movies
♦ 2022 – DC League of Super-Pets
♦ 2021 – Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
♦ 2020 – Wander Darkly
♦ 2018 – Ibiza
♦ 2017 – The Polka King
♦ 2016 – Carrie Pilby
♦ 2016 – Office Christmas Party
♦ 2015 – Trainwreck
♦ 2013 – Despicable Me 2
♦ 2012 – Adventures in the Sin Bin
♦ 2010 – Stages of Emily
♦ 2009 – Off the Cuff
TV Shows
♦ 2022–24 – Alice’s Wonderland Bakery
♦ 2022 – I Love That for You
♦ 2022 – Barry
♦ 2020 – Shrill
♦ 2020 – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
♦ 2019–23 – What We Do in the Shadows
♦ 2019–20 – Single Parents
♦ 2019 – I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
♦ 2019 – Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
♦ 2019 – Helpsters
♦ 2018–20 – Will & Grace
♦ 2018 – Love
♦ 2017 – The Simpsons
♦ 2017 – Crashing
♦ 2016–19 – Drunk History
♦ 2016 – Modern Family
♦ 2015 – Man Seeking Woman
♦ 2015 – The Awesomes
♦ 2014–17 – Portlandia
♦ 2014 – Comedy Bang! Bang!