June Diane Raphael is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has starred in TV comedy programs Burning Love, Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV::, and Grace and Frankie. Notable film work includes supporting roles in Year One and Unfinished Business, as well as her 2013 Sundance film Ass Backwards, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. She also co-hosts the movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer.
Raphael attended New York University, where she studied acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. After graduating from NYU in 2002, Raphael and her best friend from college, Casey Wilson, studied improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City, where they would eventually run their two-woman sketch show Rode Hard and Put Away Wet for a number of years.
Works with June Diane Raphael:
Film
- 2013 Ass Backwards: Kate Fenner [also screenwriter & executive producer]
Television
- 2002 Ed: Student (1 episode)
- 2007 Human Giant: Various (4 episodes)
- 2011 Happy Endings: Melinda Shershow (1 episode)
- 2011-13 NTSF:SD:SUV::: Piper Ferguson
- 2013 Drunk History: Isabella Stewart Gardner (1 episode)
- 2014 The Birthday Boys: Barbara O'Shaughnessy (1 episode)
- 2015-2022 Grace and Frankie: Brianna Hanson
- 2017-present Big Mouth: Devin LeSeven (24 episodes)
- 2021 Star Trek: Lower Decks: Queen Paolana (1 Episode)
- 2023 Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Marcy Muzzler (1 episode)
- 2023 Frasier (2023): June (1 Episode)