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"It felt like getting to be a kid and have fun and mess around," Howell-Baptiste said of her first UCB class, recommended to her by a co-worker at the Los Angeles cafe where she was waitressing at the time. "I had always skewed slightly more comedic and when I started at UCB, it just clicked."
That's an understatement. In addition to finding herself as a performer at UCB, Howell-Baptiste quickly found a booming television career. "My first co-starring role was on, which Scott Aukerman and a bunch of other UCB people produced, wrote and starred in," said Howell-Baptiste, who had been doing film extra and stage work in her native London before moving to Los Angeles.. "That was the big, notable thing that pushed me forward," she said.
Flash forward three years, and it seems like you can't turn on the television without seeing Howell-Baptiste, who was quick to point out that her sudden ubiquitousness is partly coincidence. "It’s been three years of work that all kind of came out at once," she said. "I’m actually quite selective about the jobs that I pick but it just so happens that these things hit really hard in a very small window of time.
Of her three current roles, it's Simone—a neuroscientist who dates William Jackson Harper's character, Chidi Anagonye, onfans are so, so nice," she said. "I never think I’m going to be recognized, because in real life i have a septum piercing and always look kind of messy.
revival on Hulu . In fact, Howell-Baptiste is a new fan of the show herself. "I don’t know if I missed it or if it didn’t come to England, but I’d never seen it," she said of the original series, which debuted in 2004. "I watched all three seasons in the span of a month. It’s so, so good." That intense binge session, she said, made walking onto theset feel extra surreal. "I’ve had this happen twice in my life.
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