Janet van de Graaf (born April 5, 1965) is a Canadian improv artist and television actress. She has worked with Toronto's

The Second City The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre o ...

and has played various roles in the TV series ''

History Bites ''History Bites'' is a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998 to 2004. Created by Rick Green, ''History Bites'' explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human ...

'' on Canada's

History Channel History (formerly The History Channel from January 1, 1995 to February 15, 2008, stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney ...

. She was married to actor Bob Martin from 1998 to 2018. Their namesakes are used as characters in the musical ''

The Drowsy Chaperone ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. The story concerns a middle-aged, asocial musical theater fan who, feeling "blue", decides to p ...

'', which was originally created for their stag party.

Awards

She has won three

Canadian Comedy Awards The Canadian Comedy Awards (CCA) is an annual ceremony that awards the Beaver for achievements in Canadian comedy in live performance, radio, film, television, and Internet media. The awards were founded and produced by Tim Progosh in 2000. T ...

, for Best Female Improviser (2002 & 2004) and Best Female TV Performance (for ''History Bites'' in 2002).2004 best female improviser:
'Corner Gas' wins big at comedy awards; Proposals for new Montreal film fest rejected
, CBCnews.ca, November 2004.

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* 1965 births Living people Canadian women comedians Canadian television actresses Improvisational theatre in Canada Canadian Comedy Award winners {{Canada-actor-stub