Henriette Mantel

Henriette Mantel
Henriette Mantel
Born	c. 1958; Newfane, Vermont, United States
Occupation(s)	Film actress, producer, screenwriter

Henriette Mantel (born c. 1958) is an American writer, actress, producer, director, and stand-up comic from Vermont.

She was born and raised in Newfane, Vermont on her family's farm.^[1]

In the late 1970s, she spent two years in Washington, D.C., working with political activist Ralph Nader at his Center for the Study of Responsive Law. Nearly thirty years later, she co-wrote and co-directed An Unreasonable Man, a 2006 documentary that traces the life and career of Nader, with her friend Steve Skrovan. The movie was a hit at Sundance.^[2]

She has worked in documentary and reality television as a writer/producer on such shows as the Emmy Award winning The Osbournes and Michael Moore's The Awful Truth. She won her first Emmy for writing on Win Ben Stein's Money. Most recently, she was a consultant for HBO's The Comeback and co-authored the book Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood with Teri Garr.

In 1989, during her pursuit of stand-up comedy, Henriette appeared on the original Comedy Channel series, "Two Drink Minimum", a 13-program run hosted by contemporary comic, Wil Shriner. She performed her set clad in a shining pink, fringed Western jacket, reminiscent of Gene Autry during his postwar fame. This visual, served as silent testimony to her opening jokes, which concerned farm life in Vermont.

As an actress, Henriette has appeared in many feature films and television comedies. She appeared in The Brady Bunch films as Alice the maid.^[3] She played Shelley Long's lovable nanny in the second season of the CBS sitcom Good Advice. She also appeared in an episode of Friends as a nurse in the 23rd episode of the eighth season, "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby".

Books

Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood(with Teri Garr (Plume 2006) (ISBN 0452285712)
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Seal Press) (ISBN 978-1580054430)