Jamie Denbo
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Jamie Denbo (born July 24, 1973, Swampscott, Massachusetts) is an American actress, writer, comedian, and television producer. She attended Boston University, where she pursued improvisational comedy, and later performed at the Comedy Warehouse at Disney World before relocating to New York City to work at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Together with comedian Jessica Chaffin, she created the recurring stage characters Ronna and Beverly, two opinionated suburban Jewish women whose act became a long-running UCB show, a Showtime comedy special in 2009, and a podcast on the Earwolf network from 2011 to 2017. She is married to actor and comedian John Ross Bowie.
In addition to her comedy partnership work, Denbo appeared in a recurring role on the FX series Terriers and had film roles in The Heat (2013), Spy (2015), and alongside Chaffin in director Paul Feig's Ghostbusters projects. She later moved into television writing and producing, serving as a writer and co-executive producer on Grey's Anatomy from 2021 onward.
In Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016) Denbo played a Waitress, appearing alongside her comedy partner Jessica Chaffin who was also cast as a Waitress in the same film.