Michael Showalter Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Michael Showalter Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American comedian, actor,

director, writer, and producer. A member of the sketch comedy trio

Stella, he first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's The

State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. He and David Wain created the

Wet Hot American Summer franchise, with Showalter co-writing and

starring in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), and the Netflix series.

Showalter wrote and directed The Baxter (2005), in which he starred

with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux, and Elizabeth Banks. Both

films featured many of his co-stars from The State, and so do several

of his other projects. Showalter is also a co-creator, co-producer,

actor, and writer for the TV series Search Party. He directed the 2017

critically acclaimed feature film The Big Sick.Showalter was born in

Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Elaine Showalter (née Cottler), an

author, literary critic, and professor of English, and English

Showalter, a Yale-educated professor of 18th century French

literature. His father is Episcopalian and his mother is Jewish. He

has one older sister, Vinca Showalter LaFleur, a professional

speechwriter. He attended Princeton High School. For five years,

Showalter shared an apartment with his friend, comedian and actress

Andrea Rosen.Showalter began his undergraduate studies at New York

University, where he joined the sketch comedy group The New Group. He

transferred to and graduated from Brown University. After he completed

college, The New Group changed its name to The State and began

creating video shorts for an MTV show called You Wrote It, You Watch

It, hosted by Jon Stewart. The comedy troupe then got its own sketch

comedy TV series, The State , which aired for two years on MTV.
Michael Showalter Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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