Mary Kate Wiles

**Mary Kate Wiles** (born March 28, 1987) is an American actress and producer. She has been a part of popular series such as *The* *Lizzie Bennet Diaries* as Lydia Bennet, *The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder* as Vicky, and *Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party* as Annabel Lee. Since 2016, Mary Kate has helped produce and act in every Shipwrecked Comedy project. In additon, she also runs her own *YouTube* and *Patreon*.

## Life

Mary Kate Wiles (born March 28, 1987) is an American actress and producer. She was born and grew up in Fayetville, Arkansas with her mother and father. During this time, she took dance lessons and was apart of any theatre production possible. Shortly before college, she decided she wanted to pursue acting. She later gained a younger brother.

For college, she moved out to LA, and she has lived there ever since. Originally she lived with a roomate after graduating, but she now resides with her husband, Sean Persaud, and two cats, Rosie and Pepper. The two posted about being engaged, after 8 years of dating, on April 10th, 2022. On March 11th, 2023 the couple eloped to Hawaii and were married.

## Education

Wiles attended the University of Southern California (USC). She graduated with degrees in both theater and English Literature.

## Shipwrecked Comedy

Yulin was looking for some new talent for projects and bing watched all of Mary Kate's work. She sent her an email in 2013, and Mary Kate accepted the offer to be the part of Annabel Lee and Lily Everett. She played Annabel Lee in the short "A Tell Tale Birthday." And, she played Lily Everett in the series Kissing in The Rain. She worked closely with Yulin and Shipwrecked after this.

She eventually was the one to convince the Persuads to put in the work to kickstart and produce Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party in 2016. In this show, she helped do many things including producing and costuming. She reprised the role of sweet Annabel in Poe Party. This show solidified Mary Kate's membership of the core four part of the group.

In the following year, the group produced their short Noir film, The Case of the Gilded Lily. Mary Kate played the role of Vivian Nightingale. She was excited to play this role because it is outside of the usual type of part she plays. As Vivian, she sang a song in the film, Change of Scene, and, later, outside the film, she sang The Benefits of Being My Man. In 2023, she is set to return as Vivian in The Case of the Greater Gatsby.

Wiles has also played the roles of Millie Juniperscoop in American Whoopee, Taylor in A Book By Its Cover, Amy March in Little VVomen, and she Kat Van Tassel in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story.

## Other Projects

Wiles is best known for her role as Lydia Bennet in the *Lizzie Bennet Diaries* (also appearing as Lydia Bennet in *The Lydia Bennet!!* series), a 2012 web series, as well as a other web series: Zelda Waring in *Squaresville,* Sansa Stark in *School of Thrones,* Hadey in *Muzzled the Musical,* and more. She also played a starring role, Zoe Smallman, in Yulin Kuang's short film "I Ship It." Mary Kate works closely with The Tin Can Brothers; playing the role of Tatiana Slozhno in *Spies Are Forever*, a musical that ran in 2016, and Artemis Schue-Horyn in the webseries/podcast *Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye*. Wiles has had roles in several films, such as *Hello, My Name Is Frank* and *Bridge and Tunnel*. Most recently, she is set to be Vicky in *The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder.*

### Youtube

Mary Kate has a youtube channel with almost 30k subscribers! On this, she mainly posts covers,vlogs, and wardrobe based content. In past videos, you can find helpful tips on being an actor, covers of songs, unboxing videos, and her well known "Craftversations" which featured chats with other film industry friends while making a craft of some sort.

### Patreon

Mary Kate Wiles has run a *Patreon* for more than seven years. On her patreon, she has put together many creative projects to showcase her acting, singing, and other abilities. Her patreon often features her friends talents as well, and she has helped give many tips on how to start their own (including helping Shipwrecked start their patreon). In addition to acting, patreon functions as Wiles main source of income.

## Other Tidbits

* She has a cat named Rosie.
* Although she dyed her hair red for many years, she is naturally blonde.
* She has Celiac disease.

1. ↑ Mary Kate Wiles, Wikipedia[1]