Brendan Scannell


Brendan Scannell is an American actor and comedian known for playing Pete Devon in the Netflix dark comedy Bonding and Heather Duke in the Paramount Network series Heathers.

Early life

Scannell was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Valparaiso, Indiana. He studied theatre at Northwestern University and started performing improv and stand-up in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles in 2013. He is openly gay.

Career

In 2016, Scannell was cast as the genderqueer Heather Duke in the TV Land adaptation of Heathers. After the pilot was ordered to series, the project was moved to Paramount Network and released in October 2018. In 2019, Scannell starred in the short-form Netflix series Bonding opposite Zoe Levin and appeared in the indie romantic comedy Straight Up.
As a comic, Scannell was named by Vulture in 2018 as a "Comedian You Should and Will Know" and in 2019 was named a New Face of Comedy at Just For Laughs in Montreal.

Filmography