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Isabella Roland
American actress and comedian (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Isabella Roland (born September 24, 1994) is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her appearances on Dropout shows such as Game Changer and Dimension 20.
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Early life
Roland grew up in West Hollywood, California, the daughter of actress and comedian Claudia Lonow.[2][3] When she was two, she and her mother moved into the same household as her grandmother, the comedian and talent manager JoAnne Astrow, and her step-grandfather, the actor and comedy club owner Mark Lonow.[4] The living arrangement inspired her mother's show How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life).[4]
Roland trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute as a youngster and graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.[5] She then attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she graduated with concentrations in history, French, and theater in 2016.[2] While in college, she performed with the Lampoon improvisational comedy troupe.[6]
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Career
In 2018, Roland played the main character Jess, a gender non-conforming student, in the Facebook Watch teen drama series Turnt.[7] In 2021, she began playing the recurring character Carla, a writer for the school comedy magazine, on the HBO Max teen comedy series The Sex Lives of College Girls.[7]
Roland has appeared on Dropout shows since 2019, when she made a cameo from backstage in Game Changer's series premiere.[8] In addition to other appearances, she has since played in several campaigns of the Dropout actual play series Dimension 20 and competed on various episodes of Game Changer.[3][9] In 2024, she filmed Never Stop Blowing Up, an action-themed campaign for Dimension 20, while eight months pregnant.[9] Later that year, she and her husband, Brennan Lee Mulligan, created the improv comedy special Bigger for Dropout.[10]
Roland wrote and starred in D(e)ad, a dark comedy film released in 2025, in which she plays a young woman, Tillie, whose father's ghost haunts the rest of her family.[11] The independent and crowdfunded production was directed by Roland's mother, Claudia Lonow, and featured other members of her family in the main cast.[11]
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Personal life
Roland met her husband, fellow comedian Brennan Lee Mulligan, through improv theater in 2017.[12] The couple married on April 1, 2023, and had a child in 2024.[12]
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