Mamrie Hart

Mamrie Lillian Hart (born 22 September 1983) is an American comedic actress, writer, and performer.^[1]

Personal life

Mamrie Lillian Hart was born in New Jersey but grew up in Boonville, North Carolina. She has a brother named David who lives in Victoria, Australia and a sister named Annie who lives locally in Boonville.^[2] While the pronunciation of her name often confuses people, she has said her name was a form of tribute to her great grandmother, Lillian Mamrie. Mamrie earned her Bachelor of Arts in theater from UNC-Chapel Hill. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City to pursue "serious acting."^[3]

Career

Cudzoo and the Faggettes

Cudzoo and the Faggettes^[4] is a band known for its humorous, innuendo-laden lyrical content and live shows.^[5] ain’ Bartley and formed a band called Cudzoo & the Faggettes. They came up with the name because Cudzoo was a type of Japanese wine they liked, of which they altered the spelling. The Faggettes are their backing band. They refer to their own style as a mixture between dirty doo wop and vintage rock. They often perform in New York, although the band is currently on a hiatus because Hart is residing in Los Angeles for the time being. They have released two albums, The Prettiest Girls With The Filthiest Mouths (2009) and Daddy Issues (2012).^[6] The most notable singles are Daddy Issues and New York Girls.

YouTube

Mamrie joined YouTube on June 20, 2009. She began her main channel, You Deserve A Drink ("YDAD"), on March 13, 2011, where she primarily posts weekly instructional mixology videos, with a unique cocktail presented in each, allowing her to combine her past work experience as a bartender with performing.^[7] The videos contain pop culture references, sexual innuendo and numerous puns, and occasionally she makes drinks for celebrities that she feels deserve a drink.^[8] Once the drink is finished, Mamrie then encourages viewers to make the cocktail themselves then rewatch the video, using it as a drinking game wherein the participant takes a drink each time she makes a pun. Her favourite drink is a gin gimlet, straight up.

She periodically collaborates with other YouTube personalities, such as Hannah Hart (creator and host of My Drunk Kitchen), Grace Helbig (creator and host of DailyGrace and It's Grace), and Tyler Oakley. She has also performed in videos by other YouTube entities like Rainn Wilson's Soul Pancake^[9] and stars in Sing-A-Gram on My Damn Channel.^[10]

On May 7, 2013, Mamrie introduced her audience to her second YouTube channel, Mametown, on her Tumblr page. Prior to this, the account did not contain any videos despite being created back in 2009. Hart aims to upload videos unrelated to YDAD. She initially requested viewers to recommend what she should post on the channel.^[11]

Upright Citizens Brigade

Mamrie wrote and performed sketches with the Upright Citizens Brigade at the Chelsea location in New York, both live and in online shorts.^[12] One recurring collaboration with Stephen Soroka under the title BOF (best of friends, rhymes with "oaf")^[13] was nominated for Best Sketch Group at the 2010 and 2011 ECNY Awards.^[14] She also wrote and starred with fellow alums Gabe Liedman and Jim Santangeli on the Cooking Channel's online sketch comedy show, Fodder.^[15]

#NoFilter

In 2012, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, and Mamrie put together a live variety show which they named #NoFilter with comedy sketches, improv, giveaways and songs. In contrast with many live performances, they encourage documentation of the show by the audience.^[16] They have also re-enacted fan fiction written by tumblr users which includes all three women.

TV and film

Mamrie has appeared in several television commercials, including a campaign for La-Z-Boy featuring Brooke Shields.^[17] She appeared in an episode of "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23" season 2 episode "Ocupado" as Theresa.

She was also involved in YouTube's Comedy Week program which began on May 19, 2013.

On August 2, 2013 Hart announced on the main stage at VidCon 2013 that she would be starring in her first feature film alongside friends Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart.^[18] Camp Takota stars Helbig as a young woman who is forced 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 on August 12, 2013.^[19] The film's official trailer was released on December 24, 2013 on Hart's, Helbig's and Hannah's respective main YouTube channels, as well as on the film's official website.^{[20][21][22][23]} On February 5, 2014, an extended trailer was released on Helbig's it'sGrace channel and on the Camp Takota website ^[24][25] Camp Takota is targeted to be released via digital download on February 14, 2014.^[26][27]

Recording Debut

Mamrie appeared on her first hit CD on the In the Heat of the Night (TV series) Christmas Time's A Comin' CD at the age of seven joining her brother and sister along with a group of youth simply called "The Kids." Among the group were co-producer Alan Autry's daughter Lauren and co-producer Randall Franks's nieces Seantee, Tessy and Crystal and his nephew Robbie. "The Kids" joined Alan Autry on his recording "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Autry's performance including Mamrie often airs each Christmas on radio stations around the world.

References

External links

• Mamrie Hart at the Internet Movie DataBase
• You Deserve A Drink on YouTube
• Mamrie Hart's second channel on YouTube
• Mamrie Hart on Twitter
• Cudzoo and the Faggettes official website
• Fodder on the Cooking Channel

Interviews and biographies

• Mamrie Hart's biography at the Upright Citizens Brigade website