Jessica St. Clair is an American actress and improvisational comedian from theUpright Citizens Brigade Theatre. With frequent collaboratorLennon Parham, she co-created and co-starred inNBC'sBest Friends Forever andUSA Network'sPlaying House. Recently she was a lead voice on theAdult Swim animated comedyRoyal Crackers.

St. Clair was born inPrinceton, New Jersey,^[1] and raised inWestfield,New Jersey, where she attendedWestfield High School, graduating as part of the class of 1994.^[2] Her first major television work was as a regular panelist on theVH1 seriesBest Week Ever, offering comedic insights on pop culture and the news of the week.^[3] She co-starred in the short-livedABC sitcomIn the Motherhood in 2009.

St. Clair has gained notice for her frequent guest appearances (often alongside performing partnerLennon Parham) on podcasts such asComedy Bang! Bang!, in which she plays the show's teenage intern Marissa Wompler. In 2015, St. Clair and Parham spun off their characters in a newEarwolf podcast calledWOMP It Up!, with St. Clair as host Marissa Wompler and Parham co-hosting as Marissa's teacher Miss Listler. Frequent guests on the podcast includeBrian Huskey as Marissa's stepdad Seth andJason Mantzoukas as Marissa's former flame Eric "Gutterballs" Gutterman. The podcast ran through the summer of 2015, returning after a hiatus on November 16, 2015. Beginning in 2021, St. Clair andJune Diane Raphael started their own podcast,The Deep Dive.

St. Clair and Parham created and starred in theNBC comedy seriesBest Friends Forever, which premiered on April 4, 2012, and aired for one season, followed byPlaying House, which premiered onUSA on April 29, 2014, and concluded its third and final season in July 2017.

St. Clair has played recurring roles on television shows such asVeep,Weeds,The McCarthys,Marry Me,American Housewife (as protagonist Katie's rival Chloe Brown Mueller),Worst Week andUnited States of Tara. She also played the role of Suzanne, the long-suffering wife of host Forrest MacNeil on theComedy Central seriesReview. St. Clair's notable work in film includes supporting roles inBridesmaids,She's Out of My League,Afternoon Delight andEnough Said.

St. Clair had a recurring role on theNetflix comedy seriesSpace Force as structural engineer and civil contractor Kelly King.^[4][5] Beginning in 2023, she began voicing Deb Hornsby on theAdult Swim animated comedyRoyal Crackers, currently in its second season.

In 2024, St. Clair andCasey Wilson teamed up to write and narrate the audiobookThe Art of Small Talk, which includes interviews withAmy Poehler,Colin Quinn,Malcolm Gladwell,Tony Hale, andJune Diane Raphael, among others.^[6]

St. Clair is married to playwright and poetDan O'Brien.^[7] They have a daughter.^[8]

In 2015, St. Clair said that she and Lennon Parham had both learnedTranscendental Meditation.^[9] In 2017, St. Clair revealed that she had undergone treatment forbreast cancer after being diagnosed in September 2015,^[10] and this was incorporated into the third season ofPlaying House when her character Emma was similarly diagnosed.

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