Meet Stephen Colbert’s partner Evie McGee Colbert: an actress and producer, she was instrumental in keeping The Late Show running during the Covid-19 pandemic – but she’s not an avid watcher

The couple that argue over spoons and pans within the kitchen collectively, keep collectively. Or no less than that’s the case with well-known discuss present host Stephen Colbert, 60 and his spouse of 31 years, Evelyn “Evie” McGee Colbert. Late final 12 months the couple got here out with a cookbook, Does This Style Humorous? Recipes Our Household Loves, which Bon Appétit described as a “master class in couples therapy”.

In an interview with Bon Appétit, McGee Colbert, 61, opened up about being a “recovering insecure cook”, her husband’s culinary ambitiousness, how they started cooking collectively through the pandemic and “the spoon story” … the time she virtually scraped a steel, non-stick pan with a steel spatula, a lot to her husband’s ire.

So who’s Stephen Colbert’s spouse and mom of his kids, Madeleine, Peter and John?

What does she do for work?

McGee Colbert graduated from the College of Virginia and the Circle within the Sq. Theatre Faculty, New York. She labored briefly as an actress and later as improvement director on the Drama League of New York and the Stays Theatre of Chicago. She is a founding member of New Jersey’s Montclair Movie Competition and the president of its board of trustees. Per her IMDb web page, she was in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and performed Colbert’s mom in TV collection Strangers with Sweet (1999). McGee Colbert is a board member of Charleston’s Worldwide African American Museum, South Carolina, and the vice-president of Spartina Productions, based by Stephen, the place she can also be an unbiased producer.

How did she meet Stephen Colbert?

The Colberts lived in Charleston and their households have been associates, based on Folks. They even went to the identical fraternity celebration as soon as. Nevertheless it was when Stephen noticed Evie in a theatre foyer on the native Spoleto Competition that he knew she was the one. What caught her eye, in the meantime, was how he seemed like he liked his mom, strolling arm in arm together with her. They began speaking on the after-party for the Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg musical-theatre piece Hydrogen Jukebox and sparks flew. The couple married in 1993.