Vanessa St. Clair is a Los Angeles-based actor, comedian, and filmmaker specializing in character and sketch comedy.
On stage, the independent character team she co-founded, Back Pocket, directed by John Milhiser (SNL) has a monthly residency at UCB as well as a sold-out run at Hollywood Fringe in 2024.
As a featured performer on a variety of internet sketch pages, she’s had over 15 million views across platforms. (Check out the media page to see her work with pages I’m Sorry, What?, Mitch McMahon, Mikey and Wyatt, James Lynch, and Stevie Emerson.)
Since starting her own channel in June of 2025, she’s amassed over 17k subs/900k views and counting. (Check out the media page to see her most recent work!)
You may have also seen her in Season 3 of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Season 3 of HBO's The Deuce.
In 2024, Wandering Room, an entirely female-period-dramedy-short she produced and acted in was an Official Selection for the Highland Park Independent Film Festival, Burbank International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Experimental Short at Glendale’s International Film Festival.
She has performed at Pittsburgh Comedy Fest, Green Bay Improv Fest, and for two years had her own weekly comedy radio segment on Q92.9FM, The Bright Side with Vanessa St. Clair.
Passing through both improv programs at UCB and Groundlings, she’s focused her efforts on production and written material and is currently in post-production for Birth Order, the episodic internet comedy she co-created, co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in. Coming to YouTube: October 2025!