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This week we are chatting with our youngest guest ever, Sydney Lucas. You Might Know Her From Fun Home, Girl Mostly Likely, The Skeleton Twins, and The Son. Sydney gives us the skinny on playing young Alison (aka world famous lesbian, Alison Bechdel) in the Broadway musical adaptation of Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home . And yes, she now makes sure all future projects she's involved in pass the...

This week we are joined by the very dreamy Roma Maffia. You Might Know Her From Nip/Tuck, Disclosure, Double Jeopardy, Pretty Little Liars, Queen Sugar, Nick of Time, and Profiler. Roma dished with us about the highs and lows of playing lesbian Liz Cruz on Ryan's Murphy's Nip/Tuck, navigating Hollywood as a woman of color while never playing your own ethnicity, and having to consider whether or no...

We are holed up in quarantine but we are still Great Depression content creators. This week we have compiled a brand new clip show featuring: us warming up Sakina Jaffrey ( House of Cards), Mary Kay Place ( Diane), and Sepideh Moafi ( The L Word: Generation Q ); Melanie Hutsell ( SNL) talking about her connection to the queer community; Mandy Ingber ( Teen Witch ) dishing on that time Helen Hunt s...

We have the star of one of our favorite shows here this week, Theo Germaine. You Might Know Them From Work In Progress and The Politician. Theo is a non-binary actor from Chicago with a background in theatre, circus, and burlesque, who blew up from the Netflix series, The Politician. Theo gave us all the goods on working with Ryan Murphy, navigating Hollywood as a trans artist, and, of course, all...

Stay indoors to the sweet sounds of actress, singer, and two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran. You Might Know Her From Noises Off, Why Women Kill, Annie, Why I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Bloodline, Night of the Living Dead, and Promises, Promises. Katie gave us the goods on cutting your teeth on a horror film, studying with iconic acting teacher Uta Hagen, and one of the most epic Lucy Liu stories y...

Dubbed the "Queen of Screen and Cuisine," the "Scheherazade of the Kitchen" and "the Julia Child of Indian Cookery," actor and chef Madhur Jaffrey graciously joins us on the show. You Might Know Her From Shakespeare Wallah, Chutney Popcorn, Cotton Mary, I Feel Bad, Prime, and Bombay Dreams. Madhur talked about being responsible for connecting filmmakers Merchant and Ivory, acting opposite a powerh...

Tony-nominee and theatre mainstay, Nancy Opel joins us for our first ever pizza party! You Might Know Her From Urinetown, The Toxic Avenger, Honeymoon in Vegas, Sunday in the Park with George, Fiddler on the Roof, and numerous David Ives productions. Nancy generously walked us through the Urinetown experience as it is an all time favorite theatrical piece for both Damian and Anne. Nancy also dishe...

Bow down, witches cause Demetria McKinney is on the show! You Might Know Her From Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Saints & Sinners, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bobbi Kristina, and Motherland: Fort Salem . We saddled up with Demetria when we were down in Atlanta and got all the scoop on her forthcoming Freeform witch series Motherland, getting a gig in Dreamgirls with a co-sign from Jennifer Holliday...

It's a beautiful day with actress, singer, and Tony winner Maryann Plunkett. You Might Know Her From A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Little Women, Center Stage, The Squid and the Whale, and Broadway productions of Me and My Girl, The Crucible, and Sunday in the Park with George. Maryann gave us the skinny on playing the piano to play Joanne Rogers, receiving the highest compliment from legend...

Make way for one of our most prestigious guests! Actress, dancer, choreographer, and teacher Carmen de Lavallade joins us this week and becomes our first ever Kennedy Center Honoree. You Might Know Her From Carmen Jones, Odds Against Tomorrow, House of Flowers, and a Streetcar Named Desire. Carmen dishes on her beginnings as a dancer with Alvin Ailey, being cast in the historic movie musical Carme...

Our real life friend and very real life Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford is joining us on the show today and we are pleased as punch. You Might Know Her From Kinky Boots, Masters of Sex, Sunday in the Park with George, American Crime Story, Unbelievable, You Can't Take It with You, Late Night, and Second Act. Annaleigh talks to us about her eventual variety show, joining the Ryan Murphy universe to p...

It's Damian and Anne and we drank two martinis and shared a bottle of Tito's. We are putting our previously scheduled episode on hold so we can share our real life reactions to the news that Natalie Wood's (alleged) rapist & Catherine Zeta-Jones' terror-in-law is finally dead. Anne's been keeping track of Kirk's unwillingness to die for years so we wanted to bring you our takes as soon as our mart...

Are you a Beth or a Marmee? Fresh off playing Hannah in Greta Gerwig's Little Women, Anne and Damian dig into the March women with theatre stalwart, Jayne Houdyshell. You Might Know Her From: Little Women, Maid in Manhattan, The Bounty Hunter, Garden State, and the Broadway productions of The Humans, Well, King Lear, and A Doll's House Part 2. Jayne's film career is taking off, but we cover her th...

Anne and Damian are delighted to be joined by actress, singer, dancer, and director, Sondra Lee. You Might Know Her From original Broadway productions of Peter Pan;  Hello, Dolly!; Hotel Paradiso; High Button Shoes; and Fellini's La Dolce Vita. Sondra invited us into her penthouse to talk about coaching film directors, working with the mystery that was Carol Channing, collaborating with Jerome Rob...

It's a big day for Anne and Damian as they welcome one of their childhood heroes onto the show: actor and comedian, Melanie Hutsell. You Might Know Her From Saturday Night Live, Lady Dynamite, Transparent, Bridesmaids, The Real Live Brady Bunch, and Mother's Little Helpers. Melanie talked to us about finding her people in the queer community, being on SNL when the women were criminally underused,...

Acclaimed character actress Joyce Van Patten has appeared in everything from Desperate Housewives to Bad News Bears ; from The Danny Kaye Show, to our ever-favorite, Diane , to over twenty Broadway shows. So where do we even begin!? You Might Know Her From Monkey Shines, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, Mame, Grown Ups , and numerous productions of Neil Simon works. JVP is the sister of character act...

New year, new actress, new episode. This week we chop it up with actress and singer, Molly McCook. You Might Know Her From Last Man Standing, Good Trouble, The Ranch, and Glee. Molly dishes on replacing a character on a network sitcom, growing up with veteran actor parents, John McCook and Laurette Spang, and how she really feels about magic. Her answer...surprised us. What a way to ring in '20. H...

Damian and Anne are back to whet your post-holiday appetites with an end of year extravaganza. As 2019 comes to an end, we take it upon ourselves to list our top 20 (ok, 22ish) performances by an actress of the decade! We wax poetic about everything from Keke Palmer in Grease Live! to Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback. Tune in and play along for this, the very last episode of You Might Know Her From of...

We came in at a solid ten with actress Sepideh Moafi because she is a part of one of the only things we ever discuss. You Might Know Her From The L Word: Generation Q, The Deuce, Falling Water, Black Box, and Notorious. We grilled Sepideh for an hour and a half about her new role on The L Word revival as well as the OG L Word. We also got real about playing Loretta on David Simon's gritty The Deuc...

Actor, director, and entrepreneur Kimberly Elise graces our presence on this week's episode and y'all have her to thank for our new selfie-stick pics. You Might Know Her From Set It Off, Beloved, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Almost Christmas, For Colored Girls…, Hit the Floor, Woman Thou Art Loosed, John Q, and Ad Astra. Kimberly met us on our field trip to Los Angeles to talk her role in lesbian c...

We are so siked, remember when people said, "Sike!" all the time? Well, we are so siked to welcome character actress extraordinaire Caroline Aaron to the show. You Might Know Her From The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Edward Scissorhands, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sleepless in Seattle, Beyond the Sea, 21 Jump Street, and Joe Dirt. Caroline comes to our little show on the heels of the premiere of the newes...

It's American Thanksgiving and Damian and Anne are serving you a special hot mini-episode of You Might Know Her From with all the finishings: Starlight Express, the Macy's Day Parade, Diana Ross, quaaludes, and, of course, some behind-the-scenes scoop on how we decide who to interview and how and why we are such terrors at taking photos with our guests.  Follow us on social media: @ damianbellino...

Dreams do come true and we were finally able to finish our interview with Lainie Kazan. You Might Know Her From My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Beaches, My Favorite Year, Lust in the Dust, Funny Girl, The Nanny, and her five decade recording career. Lainie remembered getting her start as Barbra Streisand's understudy in Funny Girl, being embraced by the LGBTQ+ community, & her transition from chanteuse...

We are so stoked to have actress Frances Turner as our guest this week. You Might Know Her From The Man in the High Castle, The Gifted, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and The Exes. Frances talked to us about the fourth & final season of Amazon's binge worthy series, The Man in the High Castle. Plus: how she left corporate lawyer life to pursue her dreams, what Comic Con is really like, and get...

We spent a warm LA morning with actress, writer, director, producer, and '90s style icon Lori Petty. You Might Know Her From Orange is the New Black, A League of Their Own, Point Break, Free Willy, Tank Girl, Lush Life, and The Poker House . Lori got real with us about saying goodbye to OITNB, playing one of the most divisive characters in cinematic history, not sealing the deal with Keanu, and di...