Ian Covell

Despite spending most of his acting career on stage as an improv and sketch comedian, since 2012, Ian Covell has been playing characters in film and television that range from detectives and IT experts to wanted outlaws and tough-guy thugs. Ian Daniel Covell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and adopted as an infant by Annelle Covell (Smith), a nurse, and Craig Thornley Covell, an engineer. Getting his start in acting as a freshman in college in Orlando, Florida, he played comedic roles in school productions, worked as an ensemble member at SAK Comedy Lab, and co-founded the award-winning sketch comedy troupe "THEM" which CBC Radio called "...the next 'Kids in the Hall'." This eventually led to him being hired by Universal Studios Orlando to originate the character of Igor for the Beetlejuice Graveyard Revue. Covell went onto work in Atlanta, Georgia in 2010, just as the film and television industry was beginning to experience new growth. After working for several years as a main stage performer and improv teacher at The Village Theatre. In 2012 he left to create his own improv comedy school which named, Highwire Comedy Co. Since 2012, Covell has become a consistently working actor including roles in FOX's "The Resident", Jon Stewart's sophomore film, "Irresistible", and Marvel's "Falcon and the Winter Soldier".