Casey Wilson

Born Cathryn Rose Wilson on Oct. 24, 1980 in Alexandria, VA, she was the daughter of Kathleen and Paul Wilson. Both parents were heavily involved in politics, with Paul working as a consultant on several Republican campaigns, and Kathy serving as the chairwoman of the National Women's Political Caucus throughout the 1980s, until switching her focus to early childhood education later in the decade. As a young girl, Casey's first memorable exposure to theater came when her father took her to New York City for a production of "Cats." Clearly affected by the experience, the young girl was soon performing her own production - "Cats: The Sequel" - for her friends in the neighborhood. Amidst her own political campaign for class president, academic studies and duties on the field hockey team, Wilson remained fixated on performing throughout her school years in Alexandria. Upon graduating from T.C. Williams High School in 1998, she attended the exclusive Stella Adler Studio of Acting at New York University, where she met future writing performing partner, June Raphael, during her sophomore year.

Having graduated from NYU in 2002, Wilson - along with Raphael - began her career as a comedy writer and performer at the acclaimed Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and later in Los Angeles. Over the next several years, she honed her improvisational skills with Upright Citizens, where her and Raphael's long-running sketch show, "Rode Hard and Put Away Wet" went on to become an official selection at HBO's 2005 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. The exceedingly popular show was also spotlighted in Time Out New York magazine as a critic's pick and nabbed Wilson and Raphael the Emerging Comics of New York Award for Best Comedy Duo that same year. As well as her professional life was progressing at the time, personal tragedy struck when Wilson's mother, Kathy, died of as sudden heart attack at the age of 54 in 2005. In memory of her mother's tireless work, Wilson, her father and her brother began the Kathy Wilson Foundation - an organization furthering the cause of preschool children with special needs.

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