Julie Marie Nolke | ||||||||||
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Born | 1989or1990(age 34–35) [1] | |||||||||
Education | York University (BFA in Acting) | |||||||||
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Years active | 2014–present | |||||||||
Known for | Explaining The Pandemic to my Past Self Tastemade videos and show | |||||||||
Spouse | Samuel Larson [1] | |||||||||
Children | 1 | |||||||||
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Subscribers | 1.07 million [2] | |||||||||
Views | 171.3 million [2] | |||||||||
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Last updated: 7 November 2023 |
Julie Marie Nolke is a Canadian comedian, actress, writer, and YouTuber. She is best known for her comedic YouTube series Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self. [3] [4] [5]
Nolke initially started her YouTube channel Feeling Peckish in May 2015 as a hobby with her boyfriend Sam where she uploaded cooking videos. [6] She was then hired by Tastemade to make videos, develop ideas for content, and to produce branded content. [7] [8] She has also starred in the Tastemade show One for the Road with Andrew Gunadie. [9] She later changed her YouTube channel name to Julie Nolke, where she now uploads skits, parodies and vlogs.
According to Nolke, the inspiration for her channel is: "I want to debunk this idea that women aren't funny. I think you can not only be a funny woman, but you can talk about things from a woman's perspective and have it be funny. That's the main mantra of the channel." [10] Her YouTube video Are We Bad Feminists? won the "Excellence in Writing" award at the 2019 Buffer Festival. [11] She also directed, wrote, and starred in a YouTube video When you buy ADULT TOYS online, which was nominated for the 2020 Outstanding Comedy Short at the Toronto Sketchfest "Best of the Fest" award show. [12]
In April 2020, Nolke uploaded the first episode of Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self to YouTube, a comedy sketch depicting her time-traveling to talk to her past self before the COVID-19 pandemic [13] [14] where she vaguely discusses various social and political issues that have arisen in the future with her past self, [15] such as the pandemic, [16] [14] the George Floyd protests, [17] and the 2020 Beirut explosion. [5] The first several videos in the series collectively had more than 25 million views by October 2020. [4] By January 2022, she had uploaded seven videos in the series. [18] Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award in the Viral, General Video category. [19] [20] Nolke won 2021 Webby Awards in Best Individual Performance and two Audience Choice Awards for best viral video and best writing. [3]
In addition to her YouTube channel, she has had roles in movies, short films, and television shows, including Oil Men, What We Do in the Shadows , [6] TallBoyz , Workin' Moms , [21] and Run the Burbs . [22] She starred in the comedy short Hashtag Apocalypse, which received an award of distinction at the 2019 Canada Shorts Film Festival. [23] Nolke had a small role in Secret Society of Second-Born Royals , but has said her part was cut in the final version. [24]
In September 2022, she founded YouTube comedy group Pulp Comedy which features six Canadian comedy actors and writers. [25]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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2014 | Exquisite | Destiny | [26] | |
2017 | Oil Men | Leanne Romanko | ||
2019 | TallBoyz | Stephanie | [21] | |
2019 | Hashtag Apocalypse | Elliot | ||
2020 | What We Do in the Shadows | Witch No. 1 | [27] | |
2020 | Workin' Moms | Bank Manager | ||
2022–present | Run the Burbs | Sam | [28] | |
2022 | Coroner | Cori | Episode: "Safe Space" | |
2023 | You're My Hero | Peyton | ||
2023 | The Wedding Rule | Gemma (lead) |