Brendan Scannell (born June 20, 1990) is an American actor and
comedian known for playing Pete Devon in the Netflix dark comedy
Bonding (2019) and Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series
Heathers (2018).Scannell was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in
Valparaiso, Indiana. He studied theatre at Northwestern University and
started performing improv and stand-up in Chicago before moving to Los
Angeles in 2013. He is openly gay.In 2016, Scannell was cast as the
genderqueer Heather Duke in the TV Land adaptation of ''Heathers''.
After the pilot was ordered to series, the project was moved to
Paramount Network and released in October 2018. In 2019, Scannell
starred in the short-form Netflix series Bonding opposite Zoe Levin
and appeared in the indie romantic comedy Straight Up.As a comic,
Scannell was named by Vulture in 2018 as a "Comedian You Should and
Will Know" and in 2019 was named a New Face of Comedy at Just For
Laughs in Montreal.
comedian known for playing Pete Devon in the Netflix dark comedy
Bonding (2019) and Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series
Heathers (2018).Scannell was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in
Valparaiso, Indiana. He studied theatre at Northwestern University and
started performing improv and stand-up in Chicago before moving to Los
Angeles in 2013. He is openly gay.In 2016, Scannell was cast as the
genderqueer Heather Duke in the TV Land adaptation of ''Heathers''.
After the pilot was ordered to series, the project was moved to
Paramount Network and released in October 2018. In 2019, Scannell
starred in the short-form Netflix series Bonding opposite Zoe Levin
and appeared in the indie romantic comedy Straight Up.As a comic,
Scannell was named by Vulture in 2018 as a "Comedian You Should and
Will Know" and in 2019 was named a New Face of Comedy at Just For
Laughs in Montreal.
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