Biography

An alumni of The Groundlings Sunday Company and a current faculty member teaching improv at the Groundlings School, Henry Watkins was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Andover and Columbia University. Inspired by his first job in show business working for Joan Rivers, he went on to study with comedy luminaries like Phil Hartman and Jason Alexander, and graduated from the Second City Conservatory. As a stand-up comic, he has appeared at the Comedy Store, The Improv and many smellier comedy venues. Outside of the Groundlings, he also performed improv and sketch comedy in hundreds of shows with The ACME Comedy Theatre, Patrick Bristow's Improvatorium, and the musical improv group Second City Sings. In addition, he was a principal writer-performer and producer on the pilots Slice, The Ghost Boys, and the forthcoming Mane Men. He had roles in the pilots Brooke and Totally, appeared on The Young and The Restless, Tosh.O, The Neighbors, Man Up and once died as a guest star on Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die. Henry was also cast by Christopher Guest in his Census 2010 project, appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy, and co-starred on American Horror Story alongside Jessica Lange. He has appeared in more than 50 national commercials, including as spokesman for Dish Network, Pictsweet Farms, and Direct TV's NASCAR Hot Pass. He lives in Los Angeles. For more details, sit next to his mother on an airplane.