Stephen Colbert’s Wife: Meet Evelyn McGee-Colbert

• Stephen Colbert is simply a comedian and big of ‘The Late Show.’
• He’s been joined to his woman Evelyn McGee since 1993.
• They person 3 children together.

Stephen Colbert is 1 of the astir recognizable faces connected TV. He’s been entertaining audiences for years, but helium became a household sanction erstwhile helium was a analogous on The Daily Show, where helium perfected his quality arsenic a governmental pundit, which would pb to his ain show The Colbert Report. Stephen, 58, hosted his amusement from 2005 to 2014, earlier making the leap to CBS and The Late Show.

By his broadside done overmuch of his drama career, Stephen has been joined to Evelyn McGee-Colbert. The brace tied the knot successful 1993, and they’ve been an astonishing mates for their astir 30-year marriage. Find retired everything you request to cognize astir Evelyn, 59, here.

Stephen and Evelyn person been joined since 1993. (Christy Radecic/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

How did Evelyn and Stephen meet?

Stephen revealed that helium archetypal met the pistillate helium would wed erstwhile helium was visiting his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina to deliberation implicit whether helium wanted to wed a antithetic miss helium was dating, helium revealed during an assemblage Q&A connected The Late Show. During the stay, helium realized helium didn’t privation to wed the different girl, but his ma invited him to a theatrical accumulation of The Hydrogen Jukebox. “I locomotion successful and I spot crossed the pistillate this woman,” helium said. “I thought—honest to God—there’s your wife. You’re going to wed her.”

Evelyn said that noticing that helium was with his ma was a bully motion that she took announcement of successful a May 2021 interrogation with Montclair Local. “He walked successful with his parent connected his arm. I was thinking, ‘That antheral loves his mother,’” she said.

He revealed astatine the afterparty, helium worked up the courageousness to speech to the woman, lone to recognize that they’d grown up successful the aforesaid municipality and knew each other, adjacent though they went to antithetic schools. During the assemblage Q&A, Stephen shared however helium had felt similar the 2 were fated to link astatine the play.

Evelyn is the Vice President of Spartina Productions

Besides being hubby and wife, Stephen and Evelyn enactment unneurotic connected a clump of projects. She’s the vice president of the accumulation institution that Stephen founded successful 2021. The squad has a 3 twelvemonth improvement woody with CBS studios, per Variety. 

Stephen and his woman some reconnected aft having grown up successful Charleston, South Carolina. (Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

She’s acted alongside Stephen

While Evelyn whitethorn not enactment arsenic overmuch arsenic she erstwhile did, the mates person gotten to enactment unneurotic connected a fewer occasions. She played her husband’s ma successful the cult drama series Strangers With Candy in 1999, and she had besides played a caregiver connected the series. Some of her different roles see cameos in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Alpha House, per IMDb. Besides the Strangers With Candy cameos, she has besides made impermanent appearances on The Late Show, like erstwhile Stephen invited her connected to observe their 29th wedding day successful October 2022.

They person 3 children together

With astir 30 years of matrimony nether their belt, Stephen and Evelyn are besides loving parents to 3 children. They person a daughter Madeleine, 28, and 2 sons Peter, 25, and John, 21.

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