Stephanie Paul

Stephanie Paul is a New Zealand actress and comedian. She starred as a Sarah Palin-esque United States president in the 2012 film Iron Sky.[1] She has been performing on stage since the age of four, and started her professional career as a teenager. [2] She was featured in local commercials, and has since worked her way up from small Tostitos commercials to featuring in hundreds of commercials - including four Super Bowl commercials. Stephanie's ads span seven international markets, and she also works in theatre, film, and television. Stephanie is most well known in the Sci-Fi Comedy “Iron Sky” http://www.ironsky.net and the “Iron Sky Invasion Video Game”, released in December of 2012, and in both she plays the President of The United States.

In 2012 Stephanie Paul was on the list of nominees for best supporting actress at AACTA for her role in “Iron Sky", and is also known for her role as “Pip Thomas” in Tom Scott’s “Separation City”. Additionally, she played the starring lead of Sarah Sloan in Douglas Underdhal’s award winning “Film School Confidential”.  Stephanie has also been seen in various TV performances on shows such as “Bold and the Beautiful”, “Street Legal”, and “Amazing Extraordinary Friends” to name a few.

In 1998, she crossed the pond to the United States where she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, home of the Sanford Meisner Technique. In New York, Stephanie earned credits working in theatre and film. Then, in 2001, she moved to San Francisco to continue working in commercials, theatre, film, and TV, and she studied on-camera and monologue techniques with Full Circle Productions. Their technique, derived from screenplay writing, combined character creation from an intellectual point of view with “in the moment” organic techniques.

Stephanie has trained with B.A.T.S, The Groundlings, IO (Improv Olympic), and the Improvatoriumin in Los Angeles, and was a member of Improv Troupe “Gumbo”, performing at the World Famous Comedy Store in West Hollywood. She also spent 2 years studying sketch writing at the Second City in Hollywood. She also directed the entire production of a sketch comedy that she wrote and is currently in development on for a show based on some of her characters as well as another sitcom project. She also has 9 years professional Stand Up under her writing belt from working internationally in 7 countries. Stephanie is also the co-founder of the Hilarious Healing Project[3], and she continues to thrive and work in both communities helping others achieve inner happiness with laughter, while writing, directing and producing various entertainment projects.

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References
  1. "Kiwi actress takes on Nazis from the Moon". New Zealand Herald. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  2. "Stephanie Paul". stephaniepaul.net. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  3. "The Hilarious Healing Project". hilarioushealingproject.com. Retrieved 29 February 2020.


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