Annie Murphy made a reputation for herself as Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek, for which she was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Supporting Role on the 2021 Golden Globes. Viewers watched Murphy, as Alexis, date the hippie Mutt (Tim Rozon) and the sweet veterinarian, Ted (Dustin Milligan).
In real life, though, Murphy, 36, has been married to her husband, Menno Versteeg, since August 2011. Murphy and Versteeg keep their relationship private, although the actress does wish to post the occasional silly photo together with her husband.
“Comfortable belated anniversary, @mennovers,” she wrote in 2018. “I looked it up, and seven years is not actually copper and wool – it’s two muscly German tourists NAMED Koper and Wöl wearing an identical outfits taking pictures on a ferry. You are welcome. ❤️”
Murphy won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series during Schitt’s Creek’s history-making sweep in 2020, and Versteeg was clearly overjoyed for his wife. He posted to congratulate her on her first nomination.
“Congratulations in your very first Emmy nom,” he wrote. ” ❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋😘you truly truly deserve it and I could not be more happy with you. (p.s @instadanjlevy is gonna be SO STOKED if you tell him you might be wearing Value Village to the red carpet).”
The couple seems to share the identical goofy humorousness. In 2018, he shared this comedic photo of him and Murphy with the caption, “Took some recent engagement pics by the tree.”
“You lose in your category to Catherine O’Hara every 12 months on the CSA’s, but additionally you win the entire rattling thing so far as I’m concerned. #wineinawaterbottle So happy with you Annie 😘😘🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻😘😘😘,” he joked on the Canadian Screen Awards three years ago.
To declare that your wife beat out everyone within the room, including Catherine O’Hara, in your opinion is the best move to make as a loving spouse. Clearly Versteeg is a supportive husband, but he’s had a successful profession, too. Listed here are the small print about him.
Like Murphy, he’s Canadian
Versteeg was born in Ottowa, Ontario, his wife’s hometown, in January 1980.
He’s knowledgeable musician
His former band, Hollerado, released their first album in 2009 under their label, Royal Mountain Records, of which Versteeg is a co-founder. Hollerado officially called it quits in 2019, but as The Globe and Mail wrote, it’s turn into “Toronto’s scrappiest and most successful labels and music-management firms.”
Their first album, Record in a Bag, got attention when the 2010 music video for considered one of its songs, “Americanarama,” was a spoof on the clothing brand American Apparel.
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After their decade run, Versteeg told the The Globe and Mail that it was time for him and his band members to maneuver on: “Life’s too short,” he said. “All of us wish to do various things and experience something recent.”
In 2018, Versteeg joined the group Anyway Gang; they released their eponymous debut album November 2019 through Royal Mountain Records. He also released a solo debut album, Reno Tapes, under the name Mav Karlo.
He and Murphy have collaborated musically
As Murphy and Versteeg told ELLE in 2020, they each worked on the long-lasting Schitt’s Creek original song, “A Little Bit Alexis.” Versteeg and the couple’s friend wrote the melody for the song, and Murphy wrote the lyrics.
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“Once I got the green light, in fact I used to be like, ‘Oh, fuck. Okay, resources, resources,'” she told ELLE. “So I discovered my two dear musician people, and told them, ‘Well, I just got myself right into a predicament.'”
Versteeg said, “I’d been in some chain fashion store and ‘Work Bitch’ by Britney Spears was on. The second [Annie] told me [about ‘A Little Bit Alexis,’] I knew I desired to rip off the texture of that song. We got down to make a song you must do spin class to.”
Versteeg also revealed to ELLE that “for the primary half of Hollerado’s profession, Annie was a struggling actress” and that in that point she went on tour with the band, sometimes sang onstage, and wrote the lyrics to considered one of their popular songs “Good Day At The Races.”
He takes hardships in stride
As Hollerado’s Twitter account documented, Murphy and Versteeg’s apartment in Toronto burned down in 2013.
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Nobody was hurt, the band later revealed.
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“I used to be so nervous calling the insurance company,” Versteeg told HuffPost then. “I do know I have been paying it, but I do not know what meaning. I believe it’s really going to be okay. I’m not apprehensive in any respect. It’s just stuff.”
He’s a mental health advocate
In a 2019 profile in The Globe and Mail, said he’d desired to seek mental healthcare previously, but he couldn’t afford it. Once Murphy landed with Schitt’s Creek, Versteeg began seeing a therapist.
“I’m like, ‘These items actually works,'” he told the publication. “It isn’t witchcraft! I might’ve loved this once I was 22.”
Once Versteeg saw how much therapy had done for him, he desired to help other musicians get the mental health help they need. With that in mind, he created a mental-health fund for all of the artists represented by Royal Mountain Records.
“You go to the doctor to get a checkup to your body,” he said. “Why getting a checkup to your head isn’t seen as just as vital blows my mind.”
Murphy usually comments and likes her husband’s Instagrams
While the couple is capable of keep their relationship mostly under the wraps, Murphy has liked just about all her husband’s Instagrams and usually leaves comments. In May 2022, she wrote, “Buncha friggin goobers. 😍,” when he shared a photograph together with his band to have fun their recent album release.
He and Murphy are big Toronto fans
In 2016, the couple gave a joint interview to Ion Magazine about their favorite spots in town. Then, they lived in The Junction in Toronto.Their favorite things to do in town included, “Happening giant walks across town, going to the island in the summertime, finding recent restaurants, going to baseball games, convincing people to take me sailing, sitting in parks, going to comedy shows. GUYS THIS CITY IS GREAT,” Murphy said.
Versteeg added, when asked what their favorite greasy spoon breakfast was, that he takes one for the team and goes to The Purple Onion for Murphy. “We go there on a regular basis because its’s near our place and Annie likes it. I actually don’t really prefer it,” he quipped.
Of what he loves in regards to the city itself, Versteeg said, “Our neighborhood is just far enough from downtown to have a little bit of an actual community feel. It’s nice knowing the people at my local coffeeshop (Full Stop Coffee is the very best!) and bar (that might be Dre and Dahlia and all of the regulars at Delrays Grill).”
And Murphy said, “This city is filled with passionate, creative people, and since of that there is at all times something to see and do and eat and drink. I really like my neighborhood because I can walk to the book store, the food market, the coffee shop, and the bar in two tiny minutes.”
Hilary Weaver is a contract author based in Recent York who writes about politics, queer issues, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, and each woman the Queen has ever made a dame. I saw Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again thrice in theaters, and that is just about all you must know.
