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Rasmussen

Courtney ‘Court’ Rasmussen (born September 27 1998) is a Canadian actor, Twitch streamer, and artist. They gained prominence through their role in The Bold Type as well as their Twitch channel CourtsDoesPlays.

Early and personal life
Rasmussen was born in Montreal to Jean and Andrew Rasmussen. She has four younger brothers and an aunt, Sherry Romanado, who is a politician in the Longueil & Greenfield Park ridings. They are Canadian born and of British decent on both her mother and father’s side. The family moved from Dorval when Rasmussen was 4. Rasmussen uses she/her pronouns.

Education
Rasmussen went to Macdonald High School. There she was a part of the athletics programs, playing volleyball, soccer, track and field. She graduated in the year 2015 with honours.

Rasmussen then attended John Abbott College where they studied theatre and graduated with two DECs, Professional Theatre: Acting and ALC Theatre. She also attended Concordia University studying Classics: Archeology and Ancient Languages (Latin, Ancient Greek, Hieroglyphics) and minored in English Literature.

Professional life
After graduating, Rasmussen started teaching theatre classes. Covid-19 shut down the classes prompting Rasmussen to start an online theatre company that both taught and put on royalty-free shows at no charge.

She began working as an extra on various local television productions before appearing on The Bold Type in 2019 and later returning to the show as a stand-in for Stephanie Costa’s character Sage. Since the show’s wrap in 2020 she continues to work in the background and foreground of various productions, including Netflix’s Single All the Way where she plays a bargirl alongside stars such as Jennifer Coolidge, Luke Macfarlane, and Michael Urie…etc

Twitch
Rasmussen began streaming on November 30th 2020 and has since maintained a steady growth on the platform. Initially streaming to her TikTok account of the same name, Rasmussen has amassed thousands of followers on the platform in just under a year. She became known for creating variety content on Twitch. Some of the categories she streams include Minecraft, Geoguessr, and Valorant. Rasmussen also co-streamed Ludwig Ahgren’s Twitch gameshow “Hivemind” during its second season. She is a part of various minecraft SMPs (EmailSMP, DivineSMP, ChallengerSMP…).

Rasmussen hosts a bi-weekly Twitter Space, @CourtRasmussen on Twitter, where she talks about the struggles of being a woman in content creation.