Natalie Palamides

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Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides in Pike and Bird.jpg
Palamides in 2014 short film Pike and Bird
Born
Natalie Palamides

(1990-01-06) January 6, 1990 (age 35)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Indiana University of Pennsylvania
École Philippe Gaulier
Occupations
Years active2010–present

Natalie Palamides (born January 6, 1990) is an American actress, comedian and television writer. [1]

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Career

Aspiring to work at Saturday Night Live , Palamides moved to Los Angeles and joined the Upright Citizens Brigade after college. She began voice-over and commercial work. She also took classes on clown performance at the Idiot Workshop and the Lyric Hyperion. Early sketches featured Palamides' characters: fantasizing about eating salad from a man's pants; complaining to the manager of sandwich shop Eggslut as an anthropomorphic egg; and insisting on being literally objectified. Through her classes, variety shows and open mic shows, she began developing longer-form performance from improvisations in unusual outfits. [2]

Palamides is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier, having trained under master clown Philippe Gaulier. [3] In 2022, Palamides interviewed Gaulier alongside Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton for their Apple TV + series Gutsy. [4]

Palamides took the egg costume from her sketch and used it to make her first hour-long show, Laid. [2]

Palamides developed the exaggeratedly masculine character Nate, from her work with the Pig Iron Theatre Company, into an hour-long performance, Nate – A One Man Show . [5] Members of the audience participate, such as by wrestling Nate, with audience consent and sexual consent as themes. After winning the Total Theatre Award at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it was commissioned by Amy Poehler's production company Paper Kite and released on Netflix on December 1, 2020. [2] Critics widely acclaimed Nate for its provocative performance, regarding it as an innovative break with "Netflix's mainstream comedy brand." [6]

Palamides starred as Buttercup in the 2016 reboot of The Powerpuff Girls . [7] [8]

She won Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017.

Palamides plays the character "Mara" in TV commercials for Progressive Insurance. [9]

She also co-hosts the Disney-themed podcast Hidden Mickeys alongside Carrie Poppy.

Palamides played a horror movie–style clown, Funzo, in Apocalypse Clown (2023). The low-budget comedy film won Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh. [10] [11] Though reviews had mixed opinions towards the humour and writing, Funzo was acclaimed. [12] [13] Simon Henderson of Blazing Minds lauded that Palamides "ranges from seeming innocence to apparent insanity, sometimes in the same scene". [14] Digital Spy 's Ian Sandwell praised her "deranged and hilarious" performance, particularly for minor comedic details such as a scene in which her character removes her clown nose. [15]

In August 2024, Palamides performed WEER at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show, which has been described as a "one-woman romcom," received widespread acclaim. [16] [17] [18]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2012Supply Side JesusRachel
2012The Real St. NickMallory
2013There Will Be CrumbsTiffany
2014My Name Is VivienneCaitlin
2014Minor AlterationsSara Joel
2014If D.A.R.E. Made a Horror FilmNarrator
2015Six Things Only Dog Lovers Will UnderstandWriter
2015The Real Witches of Salem CountyGertrude
2015 Freaks of Nature Kathy Murch
2016The Worst Sex SurpriseSarah
2022 Jackass Forever HerselfGuest appearance
2022 Jackass 4.5 HerselfGuest appearance
2023 Apocalypse Clown Funzo
2023 Merry Little Batman Francine (voice)Direct-to-streaming film [19]
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 ThunderCats Kathleen (voice)Episode: "The Forever Bag"
2013–2015Burning BridgesJaniceRecurring role
2014TherapyAnnieEpisode: "Episode 1"
2014The Tinsel ZoneJudyEpisode: "Pitches in Stitches"
2014 Tattoo Nightmares SaraEpisode: "Murder Boner"
2015The Great IndoorsNatalieEpisode: "Pilot"
2015Pitiful CreaturesStudent #2Episode: "College Professor Blows Minds"
2015StardumbBasilRecurring role
2015The Brat CaveSluts the Cat/BikiniRecurring role
2016Last Moments of RelationshipsMonaEpisode: "Nicest Breakup Ever"
2016The Real Housewives of ShakespeareOpheliaRecurring role
2016Very Important HouseFrolie (voice)Pilot
2016–2019 The Powerpuff Girls Buttercup, additional voicesMain role [20]
2016–2017 The UCB Show Various5 episodes
2016 Uncle Grandpa Buttercup (voice)Episode: "Pizza Eve"
2016 Uncle Buck AmyEpisode: "Pilot"
2016 I Ship It Interviewee #1Episode: "Let's Start a Band"
2016 Teen Titans Go! Buttercup (voice)Episode: "TTG v PPG" [20]
2016 Future-Worm! Aunt Bitsy (voice)Episode: "Deunited/Great Debates with the End of Time/The Forever Five"
2016 Tween Fest JuicetineRecurring role
2017–2019 Star vs. the Forces of Evil Foolduke, Kitten Barrel, additional voicesRecurring role
2018 Bob's Burgers Kayla, Willow (voice)2 episodes [20]
2018Please Understand MeNatalieEpisode: "Rory & Natalie"
2018Ghost Story ClubNatalieEpisode: "Natalie"
2018 OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Winnie (voice)Episode: "Monster Party" [20]
2018–2020 Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Calliope (voice)2 episodes [20]
2019 Corporate KylieEpisode: "The Fall"
2019 Momma Named Me Sheriff Teresa / Little Girl (voice)Episode: "Bald Boyz"
2020 Duncanville Bradley / Claire / Lil Joey / additional voices8 episodes
2020 Central Park Female Jogger (voice)Episode: "A Fish Called Snakehead"
2020–2022 The Owl House Teen Eda (voice)4 episodes [20]
2020 Wild Life Viv (voice)Main role
2020 Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun Episode: "Night-Time!"
2020 Nate – A One Man Show NateTV special
2023 Family Guy Old Woman (voice)Episode: "Old World Harm"
2023–2025 Tiny Toons Looniversity Shirley the Loon, Furball (voice)Main role

References

  1. ↑ Hilton, Emily (December 21, 2020). "'It's Absolutely Part of My Acting All the Time': A Look Inside L.A.'s Top Clown Schools". The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on July 26, 2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Shaw, Helen (September 3, 2020). "Allow Natalie Palamides to Dominate You". Vulture . Archived from the original on September 3, 2022. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  3. ↑ Lee, Veronica. "Natalie Palamides: Soho TheatreReview". www.theartsdesk.cim. The Arts Desk. Retrieved July 18, 2025.
  4. ↑ Hugo, Rifkind. "Gutsy Review". www.thetimes.com. The Times. Retrieved July 18, 2025.
  5. ↑ Rodrigues, Ashwin (December 4, 2020). "Natalie Palamides Has the Weirdest Comedy Special on Netflix". Vice . Archived from the original on September 3, 2022. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ Symons, Alex (2023). Women Comedians in the Digital Age (1st ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 147. ISBN   978-1-003-26868-0. OCLC   1349461077.
  7. ↑ The Big Cartoon DataBase (May 31, 2016). "Cartoon Characters, Cast and Crew for The Powerpuff Girls (Series)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved March 5, 2016.[ dead link ]
  8. ↑ Owen, Robb (April 1, 2016). "Tuned In: Peters Township High grad gives voice to new 'Powerpuff Girls'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Natalie Palamides TV Commercial Ads" Archived September 21, 2020, at the Wayback Machine iSpot.tv
  10. ↑ Tabbara, Mona (July 17, 2023). "Apocalypse Clown, Verdigris scoop prizes at Galway Film Fleadh, as marketplace packs a punch". Screen Daily . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  11. ↑ Ritman, Alex (July 14, 2023). "Director of Dark Comedy Apocalypse Clown on Making a '$2M Roland Emmerich Film. With Clowns. In Ireland'". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  12. ↑ Felperin, Leslie (August 29, 2023). "Apocalypse Clown review – gag-filled comedy in post-apocalyptic Ireland". The Guardian . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  13. ↑ Halligan, Fionnuala (July 14, 2023). "Apocalypse Clown: Galway Review". Screen Daily . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  14. ↑ Henderson, Simon (August 21, 2023). "Film Review: Apocalypse Clown (2023) is incredible brilliant". Blazing Minds. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  15. ↑ Sandwell, Ian (October 23, 2023). "Apocalypse Clown is unlike anything you've seen before". Digital Spy . Retrieved January 14, 2024.
  16. ↑ Logan, Brian (August 8, 2024). "Natalie Palamides: Weer review – an outrageously entertaining one-woman romcom". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  17. ↑ "Review: Natalie Palamides: Weer". TimeOut.
  18. ↑ "Natalie Palamides: WEER review at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh". The Stage. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  19. ↑ Milligan, Mercedes (November 19, 2023). "Trailer: Merry Little Batman Brings a Lighter Dark Knight Tale to Prime Video" . Retrieved November 20, 2023.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Natalie Palamides (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 20, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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