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Grace Helbig
Born
Grace Anne Helbig

(1985-09-27) September 27, 1985 (age 38)
South Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRamapo College
Occupation(s)Actress, comedian, internet personality
Years active2007–present
Employer(s)My Damn Channel, G4
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
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Grace Anne Helbig (born September 27, 1985) is an American comedian, actress and internet personality. She is best known for creating the My Damn Channel web series Daily Grace,[1] being a correspondent on Attack of the Show! on the G4 network, as well as playing Idol (one of the main characters) on the web series MyMusic created by the Fine Brothers.

Personal life

Grace Anne Helbig was born on September 27, 1985, in South Jersey to John Helbig and Theresa McGinnis. Helbig has an older brother, John, and a younger brother, Timothy. She attended West End Memorial Elementary School in Woodbury, New Jersey and then Gateway Regional High School in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey.

In 2003, Helbig began studying at Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey. It was there that she formed a sketch comedy group called "Baked Goods" with her best friend, Michelle Vargas. During her college years, she took improv classes at the Peoples Improv Theater in New York City. She was a semi-finalist in the 2005 Miss New Jersey USA beauty pageant.[2] She graduated college with a BA in Contemporary Arts in 2007.[3]

From 2007 to 2012, Helbig lived in Brooklyn, New York. She performed on a house team at the PIT and started making videos with her roommate, Michelle. She moved to Los Angeles, California in November 2012.

Helbig is a Pescetarian and is lactose intolerant.[citation needed]

Career

My Damn Channel and Daily Grace

In early 2008, Helbig narrated the short-lived animated web series, Bedtime Stories on My Damn Channel, which consisted of R-rated parodies of classic fairy tales.[4] My Damn Channel founder and CEO Rob Barnett came across her personal vlogs and offered her the opportunity to host a vlog on My Damn Channel. This became Daily Grace, a video blog web series with new episodes published every weekday.[5][6] On October 11, 2010, DailyGrace was launched as its own YouTube channel. As of September 2013, the channel has nearly 2 million subscribers and over 170 million video views on YouTube.[1] Since the series' inception in 2008 (and as of August 2013), Helbig has created approximately 750 videos for her YouTube channel — in addition to about 690 Videos that she published exclusively on My Damn Channel (i.e. all videos up to October 8, 2010 as well as additional extra videos after that date).[7]

TV work

In 2009, Helbig played a supporting role in an episode of the short-lived Comedy Central TV series Michael and Michael Have Issues starring Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black.[8][9][10] During 2010–2011, she made several appearances as process server Byran McElderry's assistant Grace on the TruTV show All Worked Up.[11][12] In December 2010, Helbig appeared as an extra in a sketch on Late Show with David Letterman.[10][13][14] Since spring of 2011, Helbig appeared periodically on Attack of the Show! on the G4 network as both a co-host and a correspondent until the show's cancellation in 2013.[15][16][17] In 2012 she was also featured in several Lowe's TV commercials.

Year Title Role Notes
2009 Michael and Michael Have Issues Anna Appears in Episode 5, "College"
2010 Late Show with David Letterman Unnamed Extra Season 18, Episode 51, "Joe Grossman's Geopolitical Insights & Analysis"
2010–2011 All Worked Up Grace Plays process server Byran McElderry's assistant in a few episodes.
2011–2012 Attack of the Show! Herself Interviewer, field reporter, occasional host of "The Feed", guest co-host

Film

On August 2, 2013 Helbig announced on the main stage at VidCon 2013 that she will be starring in her first feature film alongside friends Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart.[18] "Camp Takota" stars Helbig as a young twentysomething who decides to leave her big city job and head back to her old summer camp where she is reunited with old friends played by Hannah and Mamrie. The film, directed by the Brothers Riedell, began shooting in California August 12, 2013.[19]

Other work

Grace Helbig as Idol of MyMusic

During May/June 2013, Helbig (along with Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart) embarked on a live comedy show across America titled #NoFilterShow. It encouraged people to film and document the show and incorporated the use of social media by using internet comments and Twitter mentions in crowd games.[20]

In 2011, she co-hosted the monthly live late night stage show Morning Show with Jacob "Hobart" Brown.[21][22]

Helbig shoots and edits the web series You Deserve a Drink in collaboration with her friend, Mamrie Hart.[23][24]

In 2012, during the inaugural IAWTV Awards, Helbig conversed with the Fine Brothers. The brothers approached her during the series MyMusic. The two still needed to cast someone to play the role of Idol. Helbig would., one week later, fly out to Los Angeles where she would be on the set of the series, shooting the first season.[25]

Helbig has also appeared in the Fine Brothers' YouTubers React series.

On January 15, 2013, Helbig participated on stage at Carnegie Hall with John Green, Hank Green, Hannah Hart, Ashley Clements and Daniel Vincent Gordh. She also filled in for John Green as a guest vlogger while he was on paternity leave, with a video on how to seem smart and cultural.

On April 4, 2013, Helbig appeared on the season premier of TableTop hosted by Wil Wheaton on the Geek & Sundry Youtube channel. For the season finale of the hit web series The Most Popular Girls in School she voiced Jeannie Halverstad, the abrasive show host of Cheer Nationals.

Awards and nominations

Daily Grace was elected King of the Web in October 2011.[26] Helbig's personal Twitter was listed in the Humor section of Time Magazine's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012.[27]

Year Ceremony Category Work Result Source
2012 IAWTV Awards Best Writing (Non-Fiction) Daily Grace Nominated
2013 IAWTV Awards Best Host (Taped) Daily Grace Won
Best Hosted (Taped) Web Series Daily Grace Won
Best Writing (Non-Fiction) Daily Grace Nominated
Streamy Awards Best First-Person Series Daily Grace Won
Audience Choice Personality of the Year Won

References

  1. ^ a b Helbig, Grace. "Daily Grace". My Damn Channel on YouTube. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  2. ^ "Official Results". Miss New Jersey USA Pageant. 2005. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  3. ^ David Siteman Garland. "Coolest Job In The World? Meet The Girl Getting Paid To Create Funny Videos". The Rise to the Top. Episode 216.
  4. ^ "Bedtime Stories: The Frog Prince". Carnival of Stuff. My Damn Channel.
  5. ^ Swearingen, Ryan. "Grace Helbig". Stated Magazine. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  6. ^ Usigan, Ysolt (July 19, 2011). "200 things vlogger Grace Helbig learned on the Internet". Wired for Women. CBS News.
  7. ^ Helbig, Grace. "Daily Grace". My Damn Channel. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  8. ^ "The Morning After". Michael and Michael Have Issues. August 12, 2009. Comedy Central.
  9. ^ "Grace Helbig". Performer Bios. The Peoples Improv Theater. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  10. ^ a b "Grace Helbig". Inside the Actor's Studio Apartment. Episode 2. July 6, 2011.
  11. ^ "Grace Under Fire". All Worked Up. TruTV.
  12. ^ Helbig, Grace. "Sometimes I'm on All Worked Up on TruTV". Retrieved October 8, 2011.
  13. ^ "Episode #18.51". Late Show with David Letterman. Season 18. Episode 51. December 7, 2010. CBS.
  14. ^ "DAILY GRACE ON LETTERMAN!". Daily Grace. December 8, 2010. My Damn Channel.
  15. ^ "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Interviews". Attack of the Show!. Season 7. Episode 126. July 14, 2011. G4 (TV channel).
  16. ^ "The Latest Microsoft Gadgets!". Attack of the Show!. Season 7. Episode 123. July 11, 2011. G4 (TV channel).
  17. ^ "The Daily Feed with Grace Helbig". Attack of the Show!. Season 7. Episode 157. August 30, 2011. G4 (TV channel).
  18. ^ http://www.tubefilter.com/2013/08/02/grace-helbig-hannah-mamrie-hart-chill-camp-takota/
  19. ^ http://chill.com/camp
  20. ^ Nick A. Zaino III (May 23, 2013). "With 'Daily Grace' videos, comedian Grace Helbig builds a fan base online - Theater & art". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  21. ^ "Morning Show on Tumblr". Morningshow.tumblr.com. March 21, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  22. ^ Karlin, Ariel. "G.L.O.C.s live!". Gorgeous Ladies Of Comedy. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  23. ^ Hart, Mamrie. "You Deserve a Drink". Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  24. ^ Karlin, Ariel. "The GLOCdown: You Deserve A Drink". Gorgeous Ladies Of Comedy. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  25. ^ Shannon O'Connor (June 22, 2013). "Grace Helbig: Much More Than DailyGrace". Entertainment Monthly. Retrieved August 31, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  26. ^ "And October's King of the Web is…DailyGrace!". October 31, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  27. ^ Allie Townsend (March 21, 2012). "Grace Helbig, The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012". Time Magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
  28. ^ "International Academy of Web Television Announces Nominees for the Inaugural IAWTV Awards". December 14, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  29. ^ a b "IAWTV Awards - 2013 Winners". January 8, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  30. ^ "IAWTV Awards - 2013 Nominees". January 8, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  31. ^ a b "THE OFFICIAL 3RD ANNUAL STREAMY AWARD NOMINEES". Streamys.org. International Academy of Web Television. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
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