Delaney Rowe Is Ready to Take Her Comedy Chops Mainstream

In typical working-actor form, Rowe spent a few years juggling auditions with a side gig as a private chef to pay the bills. But nothing was clicking. She was reading for a lot of the same leading-role types in young adult TV shows and films, but she wasn’t booking anything. “I watched Gossip Girl growing up, but when it came down to auditioning for those types of things, I was so not right for it,” she recalls. While her team saw her as an ingénue, she knew in her heart she was more of a comedian and would be better off as the weird best friend. “It’s so my instinct to be making things a little more unusual and a little more comedy-centric, so going into these auditions, I’m riffing, and I’m improving and doing a stand-up set, and they’re like, ‘Can you stick to the script?’” Rowe says. She eventually parted ways with her team and started making her own content to show people that she could be funny.

Rowe soon found her niche on TikTok, steadily building a loyal fan base with incredibly accurate situational humor and POV skits. Each video plays out like an audition self-tape with her writing and acting chops on full display. Recurring characters, like the aforementioned insufferable female lead and the girl who’s convinced you’re obsessed with her, quickly took off. Fans may be quick to draw parallels, but Rowe promises she isn’t going after specific projects, writers, or actors. “By the way, I love these movies that I make fun of,” she says. “I love this archetype. I think it’s so fantastic, and it’s almost my homage to it rather than a parody.”